Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flaw...
by klyrs on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @09:00PM
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> Write your code for junior devs in their first week at your company, not for academic journals.
Hard and fast rules about coding style are silly. There's a time and place for clever code, and there's a time and place for verbose and straightforward code.
I write performance-critical code. Juniors shouldn't be mucking about there, because it's performance critical. I also write non-performance-critical code with some effort. I write that stuff for the juniors.
When writing for academic journals, it looks like the stuff I write for juniors. I'll drop a hint here or there so experts can reproduce less-obvious optimizations.
Hard and fast rules about coding style are silly. There's a time and place for clever code, and there's a time and place for verbose and straightforward code.
I write performance-critical code. Juniors shouldn't be mucking about there, because it's performance critical. I also write non-performance-critical code with some effort. I write that stuff for the juniors.
When writing for academic journals, it looks like the stuff I write for juniors. I'll drop a hint here or there so experts can reproduce less-obvious optimizations.