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reitzensteinm on May 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: -2000 Lines of Code (2004)

Make the code as short as possible, but no shorter?

Flow on May 30, 2012 [–]

It's not that easy, you have to think of things like:

- If I debug this code, will there be meaningful intermediate values? (One clever line of code might lack those)

- Can a less experiences developer understand what this does?

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