Understability of code should be the default priority
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Matt Lacey[^]:
All things being equal, so not when performance is an issue, and in addition to any existing coding conventions, the understandability of code is the most important thing.
Understand?
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Matt Lacey[^]:
All things being equal, so not when performance is an issue, and in addition to any existing coding conventions, the understandability of code is the most important thing.
Understand?
Two words: Job security through spaghetti code.
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Matt Lacey[^]:
All things being equal, so not when performance is an issue, and in addition to any existing coding conventions, the understandability of code is the most important thing.
Understand?
Is he a coder or a politician?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Matt Lacey[^]:
All things being equal, so not when performance is an issue, and in addition to any existing coding conventions, the understandability of code is the most important thing.
Understand?
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Two words: Job security through spaghetti code.
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David O'Neil wrote:
Job security through spaghetti code
That's five words, unless my counting is really off.
"This sentence has sofa six words". In my student days, "self-referencing sentences" were sort of a craze. The above is one of the basic examples. What has the sofa got to do in there? Well, if it was removed, the statement would no longer be true; the sentence would not refer to itself. (Another popular one: "This sentence does not refer to itself" - is that a self-referencing sentence? Is the statement true?)
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David O'Neil wrote:
Job security through spaghetti code
That's five words, unless my counting is really off.
People who would use spaghetti code for job security would count 'five' as 'two.'
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver
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"This sentence has sofa six words". In my student days, "self-referencing sentences" were sort of a craze. The above is one of the basic examples. What has the sofa got to do in there? Well, if it was removed, the statement would no longer be true; the sentence would not refer to itself. (Another popular one: "This sentence does not refer to itself" - is that a self-referencing sentence? Is the statement true?)
A classic from Scott Kim, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter:
This sentence no verb.Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Matt Lacey[^]:
All things being equal, so not when performance is an issue, and in addition to any existing coding conventions, the understandability of code is the most important thing.
Understand?