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by philjr 5405 days ago
There's another way to look at this as well.

Many great novelists and authors have mentioned "rewriting" when it comes to their novels and books. "True writing is rewriting", "books are not written, they're rewritten". My experience is that comes with code too.

You write the functionality to do what you want, and then you keep to keep re-writing it to make it beautiful/readable.