Perl one-liners are perhaps one of the best demonstrations of this dynamic
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Line count != complexity Good code is simple code: it's findable, readable, understandable, modifiable, and testable. Very concise code, or worse, clever code, often runs against these goals.
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“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.” Blaise Pascal –1657
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Awesome. This was most likely the source of our little phrase at one place of work, "Its hard to make things simple".
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I remember your tweet about “Think clearly, describe simply” Words to live by for any programmer
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The drive for minimal code in frameworks lately usually results in a lot of complexity shoved under the rug without much real design going into the decisions
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Love for François!
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Agreed, usually prefer say 8 lines of easy to understand code than the same logic crammed into a smart one-liner
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Line count == maintenance cost.
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Regex!
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