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Languages enforcing a questionable structure or boatloads of boilerplate are one thing, but it's also that writing comprehensible code is a skill in and of itse
by classified 2y ago
Languages enforcing a questionable structure or boatloads of boilerplate are one thing, but it's also that writing comprehensible code is a skill in and of itself. If you don't have that (yet), no language on earth is going to save you.
- iLemming 2y agoTrue. Writing beautiful code that is easy to reason about is a skill. Just like writing prose, it comes with experience. One can try multiple programming languages and still suck at it; It is not language-dependent art. I've seen horrible code in languages I know well, and I've seen beautiful code in PLs I have no idea how to write idiomatic structures in.