Re:Clear is better than clever [pdf]
by coldtea on Monday May 06, 2019 @11:24AM
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Well, it could be if we had more research.
From my experience, and from my reading on tons of books, code, clean code suggestions, bug reports, etc, patterns of bugs are more commonly found on such code bits, that sacrifice clarity for succinctness or "clever points" (in fact that's the very premise of TFA).
Most respected elders in development also warn against those types of code.
Lacking objective research, that's the best we can get, and I'd say better than "it works for me".
From my experience, and from my reading on tons of books, code, clean code suggestions, bug reports, etc, patterns of bugs are more commonly found on such code bits, that sacrifice clarity for succinctness or "clever points" (in fact that's the very premise of TFA).
Most respected elders in development also warn against those types of code.
Lacking objective research, that's the best we can get, and I'd say better than "it works for me".