On coding less

[ghost]

Conciseness of code is good, but there can be times when you need to produce a lot of code to try different approaches and then select the best one. Think of producing a book or a movie and how much gets edited out.

In other words, getting to the eventual result may involve interacting with the problem to understand it. It's often not the case that you can simply intuit the solution immediately.

[devcurmudgeon]

Good point!