Q: What's the cleverest kind of code?

'Jeff' on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:50:10 GMT, sez:

And some debugging is going to be a lot easier now that microsoft are releasing the source code for the .net framework!

'Ben Hoskings' on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:44:29 GMT, sez:

Interesting point.

I think some languages are less noxious than others, and in fact since I've started programming in Ruby my crap smells like cinnamon buns.

'Michael' on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:31:59 GMT, sez:

I know you'd like to thank your sh*t don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like poo-oo-ooo
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-oo-ooo

- Outkast

'mikeb' on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:35:56 GMT, sez:

Another advantage to 'no code at all' is (to paraphrase Raymond Chen): doing nothing is fast!

'don2' on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:29:20 GMT, sez:

this is so true! when people talk about Code Smells I always think --
Hey, all Code Smells.
The idea is to get rid of the code altogether.

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