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C4 – C in 4 functions

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517 points petercooper | 1 comments | 04 Nov 14 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.38s | source
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marcofiset ◴[04 Nov 14 20:56 UTC] No.8558994[source]▶
I honestly think this is ridiculous. Sure, this is an incredible feat, and congrats. But serioulsy, I would be ashamed to publish such unreadable code under my name.

What about naming your variables with descriptive names?

What about extracting complex conditions into well named function to understand what is going on (thus defeating the purpose of the "4 functions") ?

This list could go on forever...

Writing software is not a contest for who can write the most amount of code in the most cryptic way.

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1. nikki93 ◴[05 Nov 14 02:40 UTC] No.8560270[source]▶
But, "it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified." This piece of code can be viewed aesthetically. Artificial guidelines take the fun out of coding.