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by TeeMassive 1748 days ago
For me elegant and clever means that 1) my code won't get in your way and 2) can be thrown away easily.

In return I ask a bit more time so I won't self-couple my code with introspection magic or make it undebuggable with weird dynamic design patterns nor will I make wormholes to so that A can communicate with B.

Deal?

1 comments

deal. code should be written to be easily replaceable, not extendable

to me, more often than not, it means simple