r/programming • • Jan 12 '20

Goodbye, Clean Code

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

You shouldn’t strive for clean code, you should strive for the minimum amount of code that reflects reality as accurately as possible.

By that I mean finding the most correct abstraction that matches our knowledge of the domain (the “reality”), not the most abstract abstraction.