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The hero is the negative coder. McIllroy said something to that effect. The hero is the simplifier.

Wasn't there also a book called "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley?

A similar nugget of wisdom:

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." -Ken Thompson

I'll bet he was referring to code he wrote himself. It's slightly more complicated (pun intended) when it's someone else's code you are negating.