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Lumifer comments on Does Checkers have simpler rules than Go? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 15 August 2013 02:53:38AM 9 points [-]

What bad coding habits do you think trying to optimize for compressibility would promote?

Being easily understandable by humans.

Knuth: “The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”