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Readability should be the primary focus of code. Everything else like maintainability and correctness are side effects of readability.
by blackoil 3y ago
Readability should be the primary focus of code. Everything else like maintainability and correctness are side effects of readability.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoentire use cases are completely impractical because of a local maximum of readability preventing a 600x speedup
- kazinator 3y agoA local maximum of readability preventing a 600x speedup is better than a local maximum of unreadability that is also preventing a 600x speedup.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoexcept there is no optimization function which produces local maxima of unreadability. precisely the opposite with readability. i.e. there is no unreadability cult in the real world. you're just using it as a rhetorical device. in fact, there is no maximum level of unreadability. what's more unreadable than 50 exabytes of brainfuck? 51 exabytes of brainfuck