>>>>Programming can be difficult - but you make it harder ...
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>>>I get payed for making progs working -- not for making them readable. (^_~)
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>>>Agnes
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>>women !
>
>How dare you?
>
>I say: economics

But economics will bite back - unreadable code costs more in maintenance later.

Now there's that angle that if you hire three newbies to do one fox's job, what is completely readable to the old fox, may simply fly between newbies' ears undetected by any radar. Readability depends on the reader, IOW.