Maybe That Code Isn’t “Clever”, Maybe You Aren’t!

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Every few years I come across some sort of new idiotic excuse that .. well, what these sophist are really saying is “I’m too stupid to understand something, so nobody else shouldn’t be allowed to use it!” It’s really self damning. I’ve heard so many versions of it labelling actual good practices as “premature optimization” or “bad practices” that developers from 30 years ago would go “DAFUQ you say?!?”