Code Is Cheap
The hard part of programming is the thinking part.
Coding is easy.
Coding is easy when you know what to code.
Ideally, a program should consist of one line of code.
I’ve never achieved this ideal1, but I have written whole solutions in about one page of code.
Concentrate on the thinking, and de-emphasize the coding.
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I came close to describing a complete solution in one line of code when in APL, but that was one very complicated line of code. ↩