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Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Excellent Article
Read this article on Less Software Engineering. He says what I was trying to in my article much better in places. The article is focused mainly on C++ development, but there are a lot of gems included in there. Of course, there were some things that I disagreed, but they were minor squabbles. Here's some excerpts:
2. Avoid complexity. Design then code. 3. Be extremist. Maximize simplicity. Systems always turn out to be more complex than you expect. Guard against this by pushing for the simplest possible design." AMEN!
I don't like abbreviations and this is why. Without abbreviations, readers of my code know my intentions and they are obvious.
There should be almost no global functions or constants." I would say NO GLOBALS, but I generally need at least one. But, I fight it like hell!
AMEN! This isn't a problem in Smalltalk, but is in C++ and Java.
Right on!
"Don't just repeat what's in the code. The biggest mistake made in documentation is simply to repeat what's already obvious from the code, such as the trivial (but exasperatingly common) example: // // Increment i. // i ++; Documentation should provide higher-level information about the overall function of the code -- what a complex collection of statements really means." OH YEAH! But, I would say your code should be easy enough to read. But, when it's not a little comment can go a long way. I generally need to do this when dealing with third party libraries in Java. |
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