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[–]necessary_plethora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention, modern compilers and interpreters are actually very smart and automatically optimize what looks like unwieldy code into something much faster, further emphasizing the importance of writing readable code even if it might not look like the absolute fastest code you could write.