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Re:Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty by Ramone on Saturday January 14, 2012 @12:22PM (#3464646)
I think calling it "superficial beauty" undermines the quality he's looking for, which in my opinion is "human readability". A human has to make multiple passes to parse something like this, and that's entirely unnecessary.
Re:Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty by southern on Saturday January 14, 2012 @01:30PM (#3464850)
Exactly. And an important factor in readable code is whether flow control constructs can be easily followed.