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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by 908B64B197 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:55PM (#35307843)
> If programs A and B implement the same function and both have adequate performance, then the differences between the two artifacts come down to style.

What about maintainability? Extensibility and ease of debugging?

I've seen chunks of projects re-written, just because it was simply impossible to extend them without significant efforts!

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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by inimino on Sunday March 26, 2023 @12:18AM (#35310879)
Well yes, that's what we're talking about. I mean that the compiled artifact is equivalent, but of course you may have reason to care about the style of the code.
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Re:Cheating Is All You Need by 908B64B197 on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:31AM (#35327995)
> I mean that the compiled artifact is equivalent

Are they? Source readability will still matter if you end up using a debugger!

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