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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by User23 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:41AM (#24949187)
Bear in mind though that spending hours upon hours to find a simple solution to a hard problem will tank your professional career. Why? Because your manager will look at your simple solution that you took such pains to derive and then ask why it took you so long to produce such a small amount of such obvious code.
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by galaxyLogic on Saturday October 31, 2020 @03:46AM (#24949765)
That is the case no doubt in most organizations. And I can see their point if it works it works even if it may be very difficult to maintain it. But that should be a conscious decision, not a point of pride how complicated the code is to understand.

Just because a person can write code that only they can understand does not mean they are more intelligent than others, nor that the quality of such code would be "good". :-)

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