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Discussion on: Should code be like poetry?

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Piotr Szymaszek

Poetry is about interpretation and is often intentionally vague, something you should avoid like the plague when writing code. I get what the author of the quote was going for, but poetry is a bad choice for comparison.

What he implies, I think, is using standards of writing (as in books) in your code - clean, concise and tailored to the way people think.