Writing Maintainable Code

added by dpeterson

9/12/2011 10:47:05 AM

246 Views

Michael Williamson shares his ideas on how to write maintainable code, and even some examples on how to implement them.

Read the full story

2 comments

vijayst

9/13/2011 8:25:29 AM

A nice article. The issues pointed out in the article are very commonplace. I wish developers are given incentives for writing readable and maintainable code.(as opposed to anything that works).

This quote from Martin Fowler is about writing maintainable code: "Any fool can write code that the computers understand. A good programmer writes code that humans understand".

dpeterson

9/13/2011 8:53:18 AM

I think the problem is that the incentives for the stakeholders is to get things done quickly and cheaply; most do not have the experience and foresight to know that saving money up-front will cost them more down the road when the code needs to be supported.