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I'm wholly in favor of making things maintainable, and I have no interest in gratuitous confusion. So I think we
are in broad agreement.
However, when I'm under a deadline, I simply don't have the time to optimize for readability; I have to optimize for speed of programming and ease of debugging (that's debugging my own code, BTW :-)). And the shorter my code is, the less likely it is to be broken. I'm reminded of something Kipling is reported to have written: ``I apologize for the length of this letter, but I had no time to make it shorter.'' In constrast, writing short Perl code is easy; when I'm programming for money, I have no time to make it longer. -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos In reply to Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick Any Two
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