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Re:-2000 Lines Of Code by reitzensteinm on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @06:53PM (#4040410)
Make the code as short as possible, but no shorter?
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Re:-2000 Lines Of Code by Flow on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @02:24PM (#4044071)
It's not that easy, you have to think of things like:

- If I debug this code, will there be meaningful intermediate values? (One clever line of code might lack those)

- Can a less experiences developer understand what this does?

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