Developers say the best code is readable code
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The developers stand for, Martin Fowler[^], who says:
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
An informal survey of programmers finds that the most important quality in good software source code is that it be easy to read and understand.
Really? No! Who would a thunk it! Talk about stating the bleeding obvious. :)
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Geeks write obfuscated code !
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Geeks write obfuscated code !
Next to readable, it needs to be easily maintainable. One of the ways of doing so is by structuring things in, say, objects. Having those objects arranged and working according to a well-known pattern adds to the maintainability, readability and hence, affordability. It also means that most things are only defined in one place. No, seriously, ONE place. No redundancies, no repeating code - as that would mean that you'd have to maintain multiple instances of the same when updating it. That increases the chance of introducing bugs, which is bad. Good code is SOLID and DRY :) ..and commented, with a low cyclomatic complexity, conforming to FxCop rules, and come with unit-testing that has almost 100% coverage.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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Huh... I would have went with "that it correctly performs its intended function(s)" but... to each, their own.
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
that it correctly performs its intended function(s)
I believe that was a given, but yeah, readable too.
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