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If I had more time…

April 13, 2009

One of the more famous T.S. Eliot quotes is:

"If I had more time,  I would have written a shorter letter."

Or as my 11th grade English teacher told us:

"Concise but precise"

Which means simply:

If you can get the complete idea across in less words (or code!), do it.

Developer Experience Tagged coding, software development, writing

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