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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by minimaxir on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:40PM (#15249727)
For statistical programming in particular, readability of your code by others is the most important part of the coding style.
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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by BurningFrog on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:51PM (#15249877)
That's absolutely true of any programming.
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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by neuronexmachina on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:07PM (#15250049)
Yep. An order of magnitude more time is spent reading and maintaining a line of code than is spent writing it. Readability adds a tiny amount of time to the writing, but makes reading and maintainability so much better.
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