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Programs must be written for people to read (self.quotes)

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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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[–] ExperimentalGuy 3 points 1 year 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.