12 Dec
2022
12 Dec
'22
12:54 a.m.
On 11 Dec 2022 10:18 -0700, from athornton(a)gmail.com (Adam Thornton):
The funny thing about that...the project spanned the
July 4th
weekend. I didn't get it working before the 4th. Then when I went in
very hungover after the weekend, I couldn't figure out quite what I
had been trying to do, because it was something that was attempting
to be very clever. So in my dulled state, I rewrote the bottom
layers to be much more straightforward. Worked the first time. That
taught me the virtue of not overthinking it.
By definition, if you write code as cleverly as you can, then you
aren't clever enough to debug it...
There's something to be said for simplicity unless for some reason you
really need to be clever. Let's save the clever for the, say, 1% where
it's actually needed; premature application of cleverness is the root
of much evil.
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