Re: Term for elegant, efficient, tight code?

["Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com>]

John Posada was amused by Karen Black's question:

> > Does it help if the programmers also comment the code,
> > explaining to the lesser beings what they are doing and
> > how they're doing it?
>
> hahahahahahahahahah
>
> code comments...
>
> you just slay me.
>
> Thanks...I needed a good laugh.

There's a code warrior's T-shirt that says something like "Don't document
code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."

I _think_ it's supposed to be a joke. :-}

Richard


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