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elwell on March 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I like Java

If mediocre code gets the job done faster and it's reasonably maintainable, but you avoid it due to code-idealism, the problem might not lie with the language.

krisgenre on March 25, 2014 [–]

If your code is "reasonably maintainable", I don't think you can call it mediocre code.

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