Code Discordianism Revisited

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NOTE: This is a (relatively more) serious summary of an older article.

• Intention first, always. Anything that does not directly serve your intention is a compromise.
• Re-design over refactor. In a lot of cases refactoring is a subpar practice since it hides bad design instead of fixing it.
• Code is (only) artifact, and thus is never an excuse for not writing comments and documentation.
• Things either have their documentation written down or don't exist; behaviours that can only discovered by reading the source code cannot be relied upon.
• The so-called "code smell" is nothing but a state of mind.
• Code readability only becomes a problem when one pays active effort to decrease or increase it.

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