User talk:DanBron/Game of Nim: Difference between revisions

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: Code Golf is one of the things we ''do not do here'', along with performance comparisons. The problem with CG is that it tends to produce excessively compressed entries, which usually goes against the principle of ''idiomaticity of example''; each example should show a newcomer to the language how they should solve that particular task. (The problem with performance comparisons? Well, apart from nasty code, they also suffer from being impossible to compare except on one particular system; they're just too localized in both space and time.) –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 07:25, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 
: There already seems to be a trend on the wiki to publish code examples as compactly as possible, often at the expense of readability and extensibility, explicit code golf challenges will probably only make it worse. [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 09:25, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
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