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How about a competition to see who can write the clearest code for the next guy, in minimal lines of code?



Sometimes optimising for the least lines of code leads to less clarity than being a bit more verbose and explaining yourself better.

I still haven't quite worked out the code vs comments ratio.


Couldn't agree more.




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