Step 58: A Message to the Future~ Linda Rising

This is the 58th Step towards gaining the Programming Enlightenment series. If you didn’t learn the 57th Step, read it.

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As Martin Fowler has suggested, ”Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

The code that you write today, you can understand now, but a few months down the line, when you revisit them would you be able to understand them? What if that person is someone different? What would that person think about the coder who wrote that code?

Write code as if they are a message to the future.

I am asked to write CODES; but I’m writing QUOTES ~ C. A. Suragond

TL;DR Make the world better for coders who will maintain the code in future.

Go to the series.

97 Journey Every Programmer should Accomplish

Go to 57th Step

Step 57: Message Passing Leads to Better Scalability in Parallel Systems~ Russel Winder

Go to the next 58th Step.

Step 59: Missing Opportunities for Polymorphism~ Kirk Pepperdine

References:

• 97 things Every Programmer Should Know ~ Git Book
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know ~ Paperback