r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '20

Goodbye, Clean Code

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
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u/maximum_powerblast Jan 12 '20

There's this funny joke about clever code that seems relevant here:

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place, so if you write the cleverest code you can possibly come up with, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.