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		BurningFrog on Nov 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up Maybe by aiming for "simple", you can as a side effect eventually achieve "beautiful". I suspect aiming for beauty gives you neither.

taneq on Nov 18, 2019 [–]

Depends on what you think is beautiful. I've seen code that was beautifully simple, and 'beautiful' code that was unnecessary, impenetrable wank.

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