Qualities of clean code

Re:Qualities of clean code by philipov on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:54AM (#12506650)

If "Keep It Simple Stupid" causes one to make something complex, they have failed to keep it simple, and can't blame the principle for their failure to adhere to it.

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Re:Qualities of clean code by qznc on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:08PM (#12507305)

Marcosdumay did not state that "complexity" was the problem, but "requirements evolution".

Following KISS and YAGNI means you hard code lots of assumptions. When the requirements change, it means you have to fix all those subtle hard-coded assumptions everywhere and that is usually hard.

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Re:Qualities of clean code by ThrustVectoring on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:21PM (#12507431)

Also, if a single concept pops up as something that's needed once every month for six months, it's way easier to have that get re-implemented six times rather than abstracted.

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