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A lesson I learned early in my career was to avoid spinning out too much on why a particular piece of code someone else wrote was so “bad”. The metaphor in thi
by nwhatt 9y ago
A lesson I learned early in my career was to avoid spinning out too much on why a particular piece of code someone else wrote was so “bad”.
The metaphor in this article fits perfectly- the developer who wrote this borrowed from the future, and without being there at the time, I can’t really judge their calculations.
- taneq 9y agoAlso, ugly code that solves a problem for your customers is worth more (ie. is more 'good') than pretty code which doesn't. Customers don't care what the back-end looks like, they just want their problem solved, and pretty code never increased revenue.