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Subject: Re: What makes good code? (also, winner of the programming challenge)

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 10:38:37 02/23/05

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On February 23, 2005 at 13:11:35, Andrew Wagner wrote:

>1.) Efficiency - I do think this is important. Obviously, doing something in 15
>lines of (high level) code as opposed to 80 is superior. However, I don't think
>it's the only thing. Clearly, Dann's obfuscated code wasn't terribly
>inefficient, but nobody would ever use it.

Do you mean compactness of the code (e.g., LOC) or the actual speed (running
time) of the compiled program? One doesn't necessarily imply the other...



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