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anthonyb on June 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Write Less Code

Good programmers hate programming? That's an over generalisation if ever I've heard one.

To be a good programmer, among other things, you need to love good code, and hate bad code.

Good code is short, neat and to the point, is well tested and well used, and helps you get things built faster.

hcarvalhoalves on June 27, 2012 [–]

Not only good programmers hate programming, they also try to make it suck less. That's when they come up with new languages, frameworks and abstractions ;)

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