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		aditya on Jan 30, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coding Horror: The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimizati... Can anyone explain what he means by "writing better code"? It seems like he sets up a straw man string concatenation problem and then tears it down in a pointless argument.

olavk on Jan 30, 2009 [–]

I would guess that better code means more readable and maintable code.

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