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No one's suggesting to compress code. I was just saying in general, shorter things tend to be clearer and easier to read. (as long as it's not overly 'golfed' o
by rak1507 5y ago
No one's suggesting to compress code. I was just saying in general, shorter things tend to be clearer and easier to read. (as long as it's not overly 'golfed' or obfuscated)
- lifthrasiir 5y ago> as long as it's not overly 'golfed' or obfuscated This restriction is very subjective. For example APL and its descendants can be thought as golfed by default (indeed they tend to be far shorter in competitive golfing, see for example [1]). I'm not saying that they are not necessarily unusable! I just want to point out that being shorter doesn't generally mean much without further context. [1] https://code.golf/rankings/langs/all/bytes https://code.golf/rankings/langs/all/bytes
- rak1507 5y agoThey can definitely be much shorter than other languages in golfing, no doubt about that. I wouldn't say they're golfed by default though really.