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I’ll add that “use good names” is good advice. But “use the names Robert Martin prefers” may or may not be good advice.
by pbw 2y ago
I’ll add that “use good names” is good advice. But “use the names Robert Martin prefers” may or may not be good advice.
- seadan83 2y agoYes, there are heuristics given. Except, until clean code, it was not common to even see "use good names" as a principle. In the bad times, pre 2000, a lot of code was just focused on getting it right. The: then make it clean, then fast (in that order)" was not a thing. In those bad times, the idea of spending time on naming, that naming was even important - was not a widespread thing. The idea that naming all the way down to variables was important - was popularized by Clean Code. Which is to say, the idea to emphasize and care about naming was not widespread at the time, let alone how to do it.