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Naive coding...

"Naive coding."
(Apologies for any typos.)

I came across this phrase a couple of weeks ago and it has made me decide to set off a discussion.

I had never heard of it before but I did some research and discovered that I probably fall into this category.

My phrase is: "I code to work, not work to code!", so therefore I guess when viewing any of my code, pros' must think how primitive some of it looks.

So, what do you guys who code for a living think when you see some attempts of others solving problems and use _brute_force_methods_ for example to solve their coding problems when there are probably more elegant solutions?

Also what is wrong with a naive solution that works for the coder although it may not be anywhere near as fast as another method more obvious to someone else?

The plotting and drawing routines for example on AudioScope can't seem to be done any other way except by _brute_force_...

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