Or is it about "wicked, nasty, complicated, Klein-bottle-wannabe tricks", which wouldn't fit a "clever" category IMO ?
But she mentions "how far they read into the spec", so these are language features she doesn't know about ?
Oh, but "Nobody will ever have more state about the code than the original author" so it's not about syntax or tricks, but code states and complexity ?
What is there to take from this rant aside from her not liking her coworkers' code each in every possible ways ? I am really not sure to get it.
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This feels all over the place.
Is she ranting against "clever" code ?
Or is it about "wicked, nasty, complicated, Klein-bottle-wannabe tricks", which wouldn't fit a "clever" category IMO ?
But she mentions "how far they read into the spec", so these are language features she doesn't know about ?
Oh, but "Nobody will ever have more state about the code than the original author" so it's not about syntax or tricks, but code states and complexity ?
What is there to take from this rant aside from her not liking her coworkers' code each in every possible ways ? I am really not sure to get it.
The article was a meditation on the Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS) principle.
My grief is that, given time constraints, I'll put in a list comprehension rather than an explicit loop, where appropriate.
Am elevating the task above n00b level? Sure. Welcome to the real world.