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My metric for clean code is how quickly a developer unfamiliar with it can understand it
by tacitusarc 4y ago
My metric for clean code is how quickly a developer unfamiliar with it can understand it
- agumonkey 4y agoIt seems that anything successful, for any given era, is the one thing that minimize time to understanding better than others.
- simonblack 4y agoMuch as we denigrate COBOL, that is still its greatest advantage. Yes, it's wordy, yes it's old. Yes, it needs to be really updated. But it's still easier for a new hire to understand the COBOL old code than any other old code.
- Ygg2 4y agoI've never had any problem digging into any Python codebase. Even magic stuff like `@attributes` is easily searchable.