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

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 13:02:44 02/23/05

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On February 23, 2005 at 13:38:37, Michael Yee wrote:

>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...

I mean compactness of code without removing whitespace expressly for the purpose
of compacting the code. If that makes any sense...



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