antinegationism
eccentric-nucleus replied to your post“Why would you not want to write really clever code?”
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
this.
fuzziesandutilons
Tell me about it. We thought implementing a segregated linked list into our heap allocator would be easy. False.
worldoptimization
We successfully did this! Debugging it was in fact twice as hard as writing it, though.