The Busy Developer's Guide to Steve Yegge: The N00b Post
With apologies to Ted Neward, here is my recap of Steve Yegge's N00b post:
Clarity and brevity are often opposing forces, but there is a sweet-spot where they combine to form beauty.
We spend our entire careers chasing that sweet-spot. It moves.
7 comments:
I hadn't read Yegge's posting. But, I agree with your comments.
And sometimes the sweet spot doesn't just move, it runs an evasive pattern...
Well put! Steve needs to hire you as an editor.
Totally - you should do this for every Yegge post so I can stop reading his blog. I could get hrs of my life back!
Thanks, all... True to the tyranny of brevity, this post took longer to write than many of the other posts.
Well said! I think one thing we struggle with is whether the language should dictate how verbose or brief code should be. Brief code doesn't necessarily mean concise. A more verbose language prevents brief cryptic code, but frustrates experienced developers that know how to be concise in the given language.
Nice. How about as a haiku? :)
@Jeff. I did play with some haiku drafts but those are so tough to write.
Btw, I should mention that Steve Y has a post (Jan 08) discussing the length of his 'essays'. I think it is an excellent read. He makes some good arguments for the length.
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