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Re:The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer by pnathan on Sunday September 29, 2013 @11:05AM (#6465346)
+1. When you're concerned with ensuring every single developer can read, understand, and rewrite your code, you don't have a place for the best; because the average and worst devs won't grasp what the best does.
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Re:The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer by eitland on Sunday September 29, 2013 @11:51AM (#6465462)
Often it is quite the opposite: when the best is finished the result is smaller and much more readable.

I am allowed to be opinionated, I have seen both forms in well paid consultant jobs.

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Re:The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer by dspeyer on Sunday September 29, 2013 @03:52PM (#6466271)
The best avoid tangled, excessively-layered code, but often are inclined to use reflection, multi-indirection, or other tools that mediocre programmers may not understand.
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