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two things of the top of my head:

- the most expressive languages might not be the most readable. This is because a language that can match YOUR way of thinking and MY way of thinking might not lead to you being able to read MY code.

one example is Perl - where you can say:

  if foo { bar;}

  bar if foo;

  bar unless !foo;

  etc...
the takeaway here is: the most efficient way to get an idea out of my head and into code, might be person-specific and hard to maintain.

- Working code can lead to survival. Only survival can lead to the time to do it "right"



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