Thursday, October 25, 2012

Kill the Zombies in Your Code | BitNative

Kill the Zombies in Your Code | BitNative: "Improved Signal To Noise
When writing code, we must strive to keep our signal to noise as high as possible. This aids in comprehension, speeds reading, and helps protect us from creating buggy code due to misunderstanding. Zombie code is directly opposed to comprehension. It slows reading and maintenance because less actual production code is on the screen at any given time. It’s visual noise because it’s unclear if one should read it at all. For some reason we often accept this compromise as developers, but we’d never accept such sloppiness in the real world. Imagine if the New York Times looked like this."

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