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Re:Clear is better than clever by raincom on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:49PM (#20387481)
As more people are familiar with a clever trick, it becomes an idiom, which others master. Now it is in the realm of "clear", graduating from the realm of purgatory of clever tricks.
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Re:Clear is better than clever by hyperpallium on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:12PM (#20387640)
...if generally applicable. Then, hopefully, from idiom to abstraction.
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