readability
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📏 Less code is not the ultimate goal
Less code is not the ultimate goal Consider the following byte to binary C program: int main(int b,char**i){long long n=B,a=I^n,r=(a/b&a)>>4,y=atoi(*++i),_=(((a^n/b)*(y>>T)| y>>S)&r)|(a^r);printf("%.8s\n"…
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😊 Align the "happy path" in your code
An idiom that I learned in the Go community is to align the happy path. An example in C below: happy path not aligned int process_file(const char* filename) { FILE* f = fopen(filename, "r"); if (f != NULL) { char b…