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Always room for improvement: "Shorter code is like shorter writing. Concision and clearness of thought go together"

Brevity: wit’s soul (@savagechickens)

After the theoretical minimum viable algorithm, each extra code statement is a potential vulnerability, bug, performance liability, maintenance hog, and legibility burden

"I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal circa 1660.

Likewise

There's a weird effect that shows up when considering concision as a general value in code because it shows up on two separate spectra: Clear <---> Over-concise Concise <---> Redundant Probably made worse by the first one being much more talked about—but likely less significant

Just enough code so bugs have no place to hide...

There’s this wonderful quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery that says « Perfection is reached, not when there’s nothing left to add, but when there’s nothing left to remove »