Man Page of the Warrior of Light
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Argues that good code optimizes three values—readable, flexible, simple—and that existing complexity metrics (token count, modular decomposition, information flow) miss practical cases, so use a resource-based view: lines of code × number of inputs × outputs². Demonstrates AA trees reduced to two primitives (split and skew) with rotations of ~three lines, contrasts that deletion logic moved into cut/rewire with the STL red‑black erase spanning 12 pages, and urges consistent naming, deliberate practice, and respecting sleep and autonomy to get better.
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