a cardinal, fundamental law of programming
November 28th, 2005
There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming:
” It’s harder to read code than to write it.”
Joel Spolsky
“Things you Should Never Do, Part I”
“Things you Should Never Do, Part I”
Agree.
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