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Great code is simple. Simplicity is the cornerstone of all the other attributes of beautiful code - ease of extension, ease of understanding, often even efficiency or at least amenability to optimization.



That's possibly the best definition of good code. Simplicity and succinctness is not only power, it is also beauty.

Besides, good code is inseparable from good architecture, for which beauty=simplicity applies as well.




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