Re: Malcolm's new book

Kelsey Bjarnason said:

<snip>

All I can say is I'll take ugly code that works
over pretty code that's broken, any day.

I'll take readable code that doesn't *quite* work over unreadable code
that does work, any day. Readable code can be fixed.

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