One of the very last EWDs[1] has strongly influenced my thinking on this subject. Dijkstra is talking about mathematical rather than programming notation, but b

One of the very last EWDs[1] has strongly influenced my thinking on this subject. Dijkstra is talking about mathematical rather than programming notation, but by and large the same reasoning applies to both. A program text should optimize for clarity to other programmers reading it. From the linked text: > others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial This is a real problem in industry. Being told that the simple solution you spent 5 days finding for a very tricky problem proves that you were just goofing off when it was that easy is annoying, to say the least. [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1300.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E...