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Unfortunately there is no one definition of simple, because developers call simple "whatever they are used to" rather than an objective measure such as "the least branching" or "the fewer lines of code".

The best I can come up with is "code that causes the least amount of scrolling" which is hard to measure and may be mitigated with IDE help.



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