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In my 20 years of programming i've never heard of a well architectured codebase that is cleanly written, problem free, future proof and a joy to maintain.
by soup10 8y ago
In my 20 years of programming i've never heard of a well architectured codebase that is cleanly written, problem free, future proof and a joy to maintain.
- arethuza 8y agoI've heard of plenty (mostly in the future tense) - reality often seems somewhat different.
- collyw 8y agoSure, but some codebases are way worse than others.
- adamlett 8y agoLots of open source projects are well architected and cleanly written[1]. Demanding that they also be problem free, or future proof, is a red herring. I've never heard any proponent of clean code claim that these are side effects of clean code. [1] Examples I can think of off the top of my head: KHTML/Webkit, Hanami.rb, the Go standard library, sqlite...