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> Write for machines, not humans I could see this being a "good developer" trait too. For example, writing programs that are designed to be easily consumed by

• onion2k 5y ago
  Machines don't care. What you mean is "Developers like plain text output." If you meant to say that machines will parse content faster in plain text because there's no HTML parsing necessary then you're right, but you're also missing that there are far better formats than ascii text for passing data from one machine to another, and what format to use really depends on what the data is.
• 29athrowaway 5y ago
  There will be times where you will need to optimize a routine that runs very frequently or takes a long time to execute, and you'll have to resort to stuff that makes it harder to understand and maintain. But, that's a last resort problem solving approach, and should be the exception not the rule.
  • djmips 5y ago
    Depends on your field.