A while back I helped facilitate some discussion workshops on the topic of Clean Code. Each of the discussions seemed to be predicated on a belief that readability is the most important criterion by which to assess whether code is Clean. Indeed, the groups spent a lot of time discussing ways to establish and police coding standards and suchlike. While I agree that this can be useful, I felt the discussions missed the aspects of Clean Code that I consider to be the most important.
Clean code: what is it?
Clean code: what is it?
Clean code: what is it?
A while back I helped facilitate some discussion workshops on the topic of Clean Code. Each of the discussions seemed to be predicated on a belief that readability is the most important criterion by which to assess whether code is Clean. Indeed, the groups spent a lot of time discussing ways to establish and police coding standards and suchlike. While I agree that this can be useful, I felt the discussions missed the aspects of Clean Code that I consider to be the most important.