Re:It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
by throwaway2037 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:53PM
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OMG. This is exactly my experience after trying to write code first for 10+ years. (Yes, I am a terrible [car] driver, and a totally average programmer!)
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." - Linus Torvalds
He wasn't kidding!
And the bit about "immutable structures". I doubted for infinity-number-of-years ("oh, waste of memory/malloc!"). Then suddenly your code needs to be multi-threaded. Now, immutable structures looks genius!
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." - Linus Torvalds
He wasn't kidding!
And the bit about "immutable structures". I doubted for infinity-number-of-years ("oh, waste of memory/malloc!"). Then suddenly your code needs to be multi-threaded. Now, immutable structures looks genius!