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This is totally misleading, and may make people feel they are not good at programming.

To quote one of the masters of CS:

The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

    Dijkstra (1972) The Humble Programmer (EWD340)


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