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Thanks, "Technical debt" is the word here. "Beautiful" might not come close to "valuable" in terms of importance, but "Clean" should come close, because accumul

Thanks, "Technical debt" is the word here. "Beautiful" might not come close to "valuable" in terms of importance, but "Clean" should come close, because accumulating too much crap makes maintenance & feature addition painful. Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" does a great job at detailing that.

jiggy2011 13y ago
How does one define the difference between "Beautiful" and "Clean"?
- kyllo 13y ago
  "Beautiful" -> Easy to read, succinct but not so succinct as to obfuscate "Clean" -> Modular, separates concerns, loosely coupled, not in need of significant refactoring, easy to write unit tests for