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Taking a whack at a long-deceased horse, we see how to respond when people tell us that Java code is easier to read or the equivalent approach of banning "advanced" idioms from a more expressive language leads to easier to understand programs. They are asserting that if you start with a very simple base representation and build up from that, the result will be simple.

But Reg demonstrates that it ain't necessarily so.
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If the trials of the American frontier once chiseled out a heartier race of man, the close proximity of the fast food restaurant has now, perhaps, returned him to the obscurity of his folds.

John interprets modern America in the light of Darwin's Descent of Man.
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We can only measure it from the inside, because productivity looks different for each programmer — and each of us is only familiar enough with exactly one programmer (ourselves) to be able to recognize the clear indicators.

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