[Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems interpreting

Sam Pointon free.condiments at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 14:37:24 EDT 2006


On 18/09/06, Aaron Denney <wnoise at ofb.net> wrote:
> One has only a finite number of keystrokes before one's hands give out.
> Use them wisely.

i agr rdndncy = bd & shd b stmpd out wsts bndwth 2

Slightly more seriously, a few extra keystrokes can -really- improve
clarity. For example, you can write English and still be understood
(reasonably) well without most of the vowels. But how on Earth do you
interpret "ld mn gd t shp"? Or any Perl/Ruby/whatever golf entry?

I'd rather waste keystrokes writing clearer code than brain cycles
understanding obfuscated code, personally.

--Sam


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