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Re:JavaScript Equality Minesweeper by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:23PM (#18007908)
> slightly creative and fun

In my experience, code that is "slightly creative and fun" is unreadable and not actually useful for creating working products as a part of a team.

Re:JavaScript Equality Minesweeper by paradite on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:35PM (#18008028)
Do you mean you prefer to just follow instructions given by product managers as a robot rather than exercising your creativity and enjoy coding? Or am I reading your statement wrongly? That sounds like a terrible job to have.
Re:JavaScript Equality Minesweeper by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:07PM (#18018185)
I'm interpreting "creative and fun" as either synonymous with "overly clever" (which is hard to read, hard to debug, and hard to maintain [0][1]), or written a non-standard way just for the sake of being different. For example, here's a collection of FizzBuzz solutions[2]. Most of these are incredibly unreadable.

[0]https://www.simplethread.com/dont-be-clever/

[1]http://www.delabs.io/clever-code-is-bad-code/

[2]https://ditam.github.io/posts/fizzbuzz/