Honestly there are ... wait for it ... layers. Randomly incoherent layouts, spacing and so forth are just signs of (a good programmer exploring and or a bad on

Honestly there are ... wait for it ... layers. Randomly incoherent layouts, spacing and so forth are just signs of (a good programmer exploring and or a bad one who thinks it's finished) But then there are other layers - too much going on, more than one thing happening, having to go back and work out what that call did. Just failing to follow a thread. Then business layers and oh I give in. Determining "good programming" is like determining "good literature" or "truth". You know it when you see it. And you vomit on the bad stuff. But you have to read a lot of it.