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reading your code

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Reading code can be more difficult than writing it.   Coding Horror quoting Stan Kelley-Bootle’s book “The Devil’s Dp Dictionary”:

your program (n): a maze of non-sequiturs littered with clever-clever tricks and irrelevant comments. Compare MY PROGRAM.

my program (n): a gem of algorithmic precision, offering the most sublime balance between compact, efficient coding on the one hand, and fully commented legibility for posterity on the other. Compare YOUR PROGRAM.