Dec. 12, 2023, 5:59 p.m. | Victoria

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Before anyone else read the code that I wrote, “clean code” wasn’t really a thing for me. I had no issues reading my code because, well, I wrote it.


That was also pretty true for me in college as well. Classes rarely worried about the readability of code - instead stressing correctness and performance.


At my first job, however, they pretty much immediately showed that the opposite was important. Subtle, clever code is way worse than obvious, slow code because …

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