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Programs must be written for people to read (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
--Harold Abelson

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I agree with this to a certain extent, but it depends on the intention of the programmer. Sometimes if performance is what's needed, it can't be all that readable.