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Re:Reading Code is Key to Writing Good Code by biz2hack on Thursday November 19, 2009 @06:21PM (#951424)
How are you supposed to know though, when your code is doing better then 'it works'?
Re:Reading Code is Key to Writing Good Code by mbrubeck on Thursday November 19, 2009 @06:25PM (#951437)
It's efficient. It's concise. It's easy for you to understand and modify. It's easy for others to understand and modify. Over the long term, it proves to have a low defect rate. It's declarative, and lends itself to automatic optimization.