What would ”nice looking”—or ”beautiful”, for that matter—actually mean when referring to source code? I asked some programmer friends what they thought that meant. Their answers were obvious, but still worth stating:

  • Code should be locally coherent and single-functioned: One function should do exactly one thing. It should be clear about what it’s doing.
  • Local code should explain, or at least hint at the overall system design.
  • Code should be self-documenting. Comments should be avoided whenever possible. Comments duplicate work when both writing and reading code. If you need to comment something to make it understandable it should probably be rewritten.

» Shawn McGrath | kotaku.com


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