Class comments!?
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Oct 16 19:49:47 UTC 2004
This is very nicely stated. Thanks Andres.
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:55:49PM -0700, Andres Valloud wrote:
> Random dictates that you will, in the course of your business,
> encounter other developers with different levels of experience than
> yours.
>
> Code should be readable by most developers, because as a team you and
> your team mates should all be successful.
>
> Therefore, code should be written with special care, trying to make it
> very simple. Our problems as developers are usually very simple, and
> Smalltalk already provides in its library many ways of solving simple
> problems elegantly. This is something that can be done.
>
> Or not. Because unnecessary complexity artificially raises the value
> of small accomplishments.
>
> Caesars thrive in such environments at the cost of making the whole
> team fail.
>
> Andres.
>
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