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A local maximum of readability preventing a 600x speedup is better than a local maximum of unreadability that is also preventing a 600x speedup.


except there is no optimization function which produces local maxima of unreadability. precisely the opposite with readability. i.e. there is no unreadability cult in the real world. you're just using it as a rhetorical device. in fact, there is no maximum level of unreadability. what's more unreadable than 50 exabytes of brainfuck? 51 exabytes of brainfuck




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