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yeah, +1. In this religious war, I side with "if anyone who has a reasonable level of competence with my code can't grasp it at first reach, I have failed in writing it."

Or, famously, "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan



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