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Tijdreiziger
1432 days ago
And the corollary: since code is harder to read than write, steer clear of writing clever code where simple code would suffice, as the clever code will be much harder to read.
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roeles
1432 days ago
A second argument is that debugging is harder than writing.
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morberg
1428 days ago
AKA Kernighan's Law:
https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/kernighan/
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dgfitz
1432 days ago
s/writing/reading
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