Jon Corleone

…t sound like a counter argument, but it’s different. In life, and everywhere, we must have balance. We shouldn’t over-engineer to show off. We must be practical. Write code which is easy to understand and fulfills its purpose.

…o communicate the who, what, when, where, how, and why of a task, as well as instruct the computer. It has to make sense five years from now after the company has been acquired and a new team who has never seen this code before has to crack it open and make an enhancement or fix a bug.

But code is human language. It has to communicate the who, what, when, where, how, and why of a task, as well as instruct the computer. It has to make sense five years from now after the company has been acquired and a new team who has…