Clean Code Famous Quotes.
From Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)’s Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
The phrase “software engineering” was terms at conferences organized by NATO in 1968 and 1969 to discuss the ‘software crisis’. If we consider 1968 as the starting point of software engineering as a profession, it is over 50+ years of engineering practice.
“ Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way ” from Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
It is not enough for code to work.
Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.
So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read.
A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment.
SRP is one of the more important concept in OO design. It’s also one of the simpler concepts to understand and adhere to. Yet oddly, SRP is often the most abused class design principle.
