Greg Jorgensen
Member since Oct 13, 2024
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Recent Blog Comments By Greg Jorgensen
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Dave Farley On What Makes High Quality Code
Posted on Oct 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
@Ben Nadel, @Chris, After 40+ years writing code I still look at stuff I wrote and think I could have done better. That just comes with the territory — we learn new and better techniques constantly. No shame in that. It means we have advanced our skills and not got stuck. Over time we experi... read more »
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Dave Farley On What Makes High Quality Code
Posted on Oct 14, 2024 at 1:08 PM
@Ben Nadel, Thank you for posting the original article and your reply. I agree that George Carlin hit it on the head. I can't count how many times I've heard programmers call someone else's code crap or cryptic; they alone occupy the sane middle ground. You don't have to spend much time wi... read more »
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Dave Farley On What Makes High Quality Code
Posted on Oct 13, 2024 at 12:04 PM
I will state my conclusion first. Quality in code serves as a euphemism for skills issue . When we encounter code that we find hard to read or change, we might call the code unreadable or low-quality , but we actually mean "The programmers who wrote this code did a poor job,"... read more »