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Hey guys, lets all dance on the head of a pen together--ruminating on the blatantly obvious! Anyway all those extra bytes are mostly inconsequential unless you
by whordeley 18y ago
Hey guys, lets all dance on the head of a pen together--ruminating on the blatantly obvious!
Anyway all those extra bytes are mostly inconsequential unless you're sending that code over the wire on a regular basis (as with client-side javascript).
- ajross 18y agoAmen. Any discussion of code style (symbol naming, whitespace conventions, braces, whatever) that is based on an argument about how long it takes to type the code is just wrong. A good typist can write thousands of lines of code an hour at least. That is so far below the development speed of even the best hacker as to be pure noise. There's a mild case for different code styles from a readability perspective, I guess. But arguing for (e.g.) case insensitive symbol names because the it takes too long to reach the shift key is just insane. But regardless: code readability is 90% a function of organization, not style. I will always prefer to work on well-organized code in mixed styles (or languages) than spaghetti code that adheres strictly to an elaborate style convention.