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Fowler on Good Code

February 4th, 2005 | In Quotes | Comments Off

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
–Martin Fowler

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The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. — Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy - 4 days agoThe ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. — Hans Hoffmann - 9 days agoSo much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things. — Ryan Singer - 15 days agoGood code is short, simple, and symmetrical - the challenge is figuring out how to get there. — Sean Parent - 17 days agoSimplicity carried to the extreme becomes elegance. — Jon Frankli - 21 days ago

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