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Shawn C Carroll
Shawn C Carroll

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Coding Costs

In a slack conversation with a coworker, he said that it is expensive to make a code base simple. I was struck with how true that is. It takes time and talent to make simple code, both of which are expensive. Many times you have the talent, you just don't have the time.

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Ovid

Or as said by Blaise Pascal (and later attributed to Mark Twain):

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

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Shawn C Carroll

Funny enough, that was the first response I got to this thought in a different forum.