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Only if complicated is considered clever. Clever might actually make things simpler.

• zerocount 5y ago
  Only in the mind of the person writing it.
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  • majou 5y ago
    I believe "cleverness" refers to ingenuity; it's outside-the-box, and trades simplicity in one plane for sophistication in another. However most "clever code" we come across is lopsided in this tradeoff, and might even require cleverness to understand, which it turns out is not very clever at all.
• xyzwave 5y ago
  Reminds me of this quote by Alan Perlis [1]. > Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. 1. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html