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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