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I believe that was separate senior engineers from the other is having passed the phase of elegance. Eventually we want stuff that works, without looking at the
by siscia 6y ago
I believe that was separate senior engineers from the other is having passed the phase of elegance.
Eventually we want stuff that works, without looking at them.
On twitter people were asking what is clean code? My answer to that is that the cleanest code is the code you never have to open in an ide to figure or tweak.
- eximius 6y agoPut another way, elegant code is not always good code.
- RonanTheGrey 6y agoI have written some beautifully elegant code in my time. It's code that I now hate returning to because I don't understand it at first glance. (Granted this was years ago. I don't code that way anymore and haven't for quite some time). I've learned my lesson.
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