On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Jan L. Peterson <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:34:36AM -0600, Alan Young wrote: > > It's an illness. Saves 4 more characters ... > > > Python has you beat by 21 characters: > > > What is the fascination with short, obfuscated solutions? If I was asking > someone to write this program, I'd want to see a nice, easy to read, well > commented example of their coding style. At a previous employer, I used to > see bad (even if it works, if it's not maintainable, it's bad) code all day > long! > I think that we can all write bad code, especially if we try. I enjoy trying taking a simple problem and trying to figure out how to make the shortest possible solution. It usually makes for a coding atrocity, but the process of figuring out how to remove unnecessary code often helps me learn new language features and libraries. Besides, if you want to look at bad code, look at Perl. It sure looks like line noise to me.
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