Whenever you sit back and smile proudly to yourself about how clever the block of code you just wrote is, your next move should be to delete and rewrite it.

This is a clever block of code! Great job, now rewrite it to be sane 😂

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think it depends; some smart code is good actually, think 0x5f3759df. As long as you properly document it and leave plenty of comments. This one is not smart though, at best it's what I would call witty.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

I'd accept that "smart code" and "clever code" are 2 different things

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Fast inverse square root eh?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

This isn't smart. This is clever. It's a way to solve a problem in a novel way. It isn't the best, or even most obvious, way to solve the problem. It's just interesting.