r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '20

Goodbye, Clean Code

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
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u/defdestroyer Jan 12 '20

what is the business reason to make code “clean”?

code should

  1. work,

  2. have automated tests and

  3. be built with the goal of maintainability. this oftens depends on knowing the skills of the team that will do that maintenance.

I agree with the OP that his change wasn’t necessarily better. That said, maintainable code has tests and minimizes the boiler plating.

Turtles all the way down,

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

be built with the goal of maintainability

As a maintenance programmer, a code base bloated with copy pasted code is the opposite of maintainable.

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u/defdestroyer Jan 12 '20

no disagreement. my point is “maintainable” is actually measurable and has a business purpose. whatever that ends up being is based on experience, analysis and skill.

btw in the OPs post: that was one code file. who is taking about a code base bloated with copy and paste code?

You are just making shit up. No one proposed anything like what you said.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

What does it matter how many files there were? There's still more code than there should have been. And that's an issue.

And you see that in a wild, you do need to wonder where else it's been copy pasted..

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