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Ramone
on Jan 14, 2012
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Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty
I think calling it "superficial beauty" undermines the quality he's looking for, which in my opinion is "human readability". A human has to make multiple passes to parse something like this, and that's entirely unnecessary.
southern
on Jan 14, 2012
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Exactly. And an important factor in readable code is whether flow control constructs can be easily followed.
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