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Comment on Ask HN: Ideas to acquire "good taste" in programming?

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Getting disgusted by seeing unnecessary complex and obfuscated code, and seeing how my own naive most obvious and intentfully explicit code describes the program execution like a story.

Oh, and if you have opportunity to start the codebase from scratch, making one semantic change per version control commit is insanely powerful explainer of how/why your code became as it is. They are like chapters/paragraphs in a story.

Also, separation of concerns: having clear separation of libraries and your "own" code. Including not mixing "business logic" (changing human rules/parameters/requirements) with technical non-human machinery.

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