From: Reprisal <nepenthereprisal@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T13:29:54+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

You might consider reading the article.

On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:10 AM, gregarican wrote:

> Isn't there a business rule that postulates that a person can be
> promoted starting at the level of his/her own incompetence? Kind of in
> the same vein. Maybe not. But in terms of succinctness being power as
> Paul Graham article states, I wouldn't jump on that bandwagon for  
> sure.
> I could whip up some obfuscated, cryptic Perl line of code that is  
> very
> succinct for my company's internal development but if I was to get hit
> by a bus someone would pick up the code and frown menacingly and throw
> their hands up to the heavens (or down to the hells perhaps).
>
> Terse doesn't mean powerful. It means ugly IMHO. I like to use Ruby  
> for
> its elegance and readability. If it takes a few more lines of code to
> express myself I still prize those selling points above being a man of
> few words. After all, breaking things down to binary form I could just
> punch a bunch of 0's and 1's. But what fun would that be?
>
> Hal Fulton wrote:
>> Matt Lawrence wrote:
>>> Knowledge is Power
>>> Power Corrupts
>>> Study Hard
>>> Be Evil
>>
>> Knowledge is power.
>> Time is money.
>> Power is work / time.
>>
>> So knowledge = work / money.
>>
>> Therefore, the more you make, the less you know.
>>
>>
>> Hal
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