Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
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“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C. Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To...
  • @Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•5 months ago

    Code that’s easy to extend generally encourages creating related code that’s easy to delete. These are very similar directives.