Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares
by zoul on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:08PM
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I agree, but it seems to me that being dragged down by technical debt is massively more common in our industry than missing important deals because of excessive emphasis on clean code?
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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares
by ravenstine on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:48PM
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Our industry is pretty hilarious in this sense. In school, it's expected that you go through multiple drafts to complete an essay, and usually those who skipped that process paid a penalty. Publishing is a high speed industry, but time is still set aside for revisions and editing. These same standards seem to rarely be applied in programming, I guess because our work isn't seen as writing communication. We make computers "go". Because of that, we are too often writing and reading each others' rough drafts.