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Discussion on: Is programming an art?

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Yhomarth Reyes

I definitely consider it an art depending of the way of programming.

I have seen code that do a certain process written in different ways.

An example :

if (condition) {
return object.operationA;
}
else {
return object.operationB;
}

when it can be modified in a cleaner way.

return (condition) ? object.operationA : object.operationB;

Obviously they both do the same, however, in the second way it looks aesthetic, clean. Of course, from my spot such a code i consider a art.