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		biz2hack on Nov 19, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reading Code is Key to Writing Good Code How are you supposed to know though, when your code is doing better then 'it works'?

mbrubeck on Nov 19, 2009 [–]

It's efficient. It's concise. It's easy for you to understand and modify. It's easy for others to understand and modify. Over the long term, it proves to have a low defect rate. It's declarative, and lends itself to automatic optimization.

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