Clarity is the #1 priority when writing code. Clarity trumps everything else; it’s even more important than the code being correct! One of the biggest wins a serious programmer can offer is writing clear, readable code.

Source code is for the human reader; it’s not written like that for the computer. If it were up to the computer, humans would use the same ones and zeros it does. It would be much more efficient that way.

But we (inefficient) humans need ways to write and talk about computer programs.

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