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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
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Date: 14 Mar 90 23:25:50 GMT
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In article <2308@bnr-rsc.UUCP> bnr-rsc!bcarh186!maclean () writes:
>Creative programming, for me at least, usually involves trying to simplify
>the problem as much as possible.  

Yes!!

>If the code is extremely convoluted then it is entirely likely that the
>programmer was not creative enough.  Creativity is a must for creating
>good, maintainable code.

I agree heartily.  Convoluted code is *never* the best solution to any 
programming problem.  In my programming, the only convoluted code I 
have ever allowed in my work was stuff that somebody else wrote and 
I didn't have time to fix.  Maintaining "creative" code takes the
creativity that the one who wrote it didn't have in the first place.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.