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by teemo_cute 4447 days ago
"Vigorous programming is concise. A method should contain no unnecessary statements, a class no unnecessary methods, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the programmer make all his methods short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his classes only in design, but that he make every statement tell."

—String and Wire (Elements of Modern Programming Style)