Sleep? Isn't that a completely inadequate substitute
for caffeine?
- programmers' saying from Wizardry Compiled by
Rick Cook
Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it
well is the opportunity to do it again.
- programmers' saying from Wizardry Compiled by
Rick Cook
The problem with a kludge is eventually you're going
to have to go back and do it right.
- programmers' saying from Wizardry Compiled by
Rick Cook
I AM A PROGRAMMER
To read about what led me to become a Computer Programmer check out the section of my history page which describes my history as a programmer.
WELL WRITTEN CODE IS A WONDERFUL THING
I find beauty in well-written code and am repulsed when I see code which is messy and inelegant. Here are some lists of programming related things which evoke my emotions to some extent.
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related things which give me warm fuzzies
- polymorphism done well
- object hierarchies which make sense (i.e., they aren't forced)
- objects which do useful things while still being easy to use (by programmers who didn't write the code for the object)
- abstract, yet efficient, objects that were designed for extensability and reuse.
- reuse
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things which I find repulsive
- heavily used inheritence trees that don't have interfaces at the top. That sort of thing really paints you into a corner a few years down the road.
- single objects that try to do everything
- programs which make extensive use of ridiculously deep and complex systems of if-then-else statements
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