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Readable code also contributes to easier documentation.  It's easier to maintain a manual when you can just translate the code into the local language.  My current team started small and I learned pretty soon that time invested in a habit of readable code meant less time spent providing the person assigned documentation the juicy details.

- Matt G.

------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, December 11th, 2022 at 12:03 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:


> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 06:55:31AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, Michael Kj??rling wrote:
> > 
> > > By definition, if you write code as cleverly as you can, then you aren't
> > > clever enough to debug it...
> > 
> > Indeed...
> > 
> > I've always used the maxim "Write code as though the next person to
> > maintain it is an axe-wielding psychopath who knows where you live".
> 
> 
> My main job, for the 20 years until I retired, was to keep telling
> people that code that you wrote 6 months ago might as well have been
> written by someone else. Optimize for reading the code, not writing
> the code. It's read many.
> 
> 99.9% of the time, I detest clever code. .1% of the time, I need it.
> The problem is that smart engineers adore writing clever code. They
> usually, eventually, wise up.