More on cleverness from an old AI textbook (Artificial Intelligence Programming by Charniak, Riesbeck and McDermott):
"1.12.5 Cleverness
Avoid it . Clever tricks ... [Lisp specific stuff omitted.]
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, we advise you to look over your code very carefully, and whenever you find a part that you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
More on cleverness from an old AI textbook (Artificial Intelligence Programming by Charniak, Riesbeck and McDermott):
"1.12.5 Cleverness
Avoid it . Clever tricks ... [Lisp specific stuff omitted.]
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, we advise you to look over your code very carefully, and whenever you find a part that you think is particularly fine, strike it out."