Month: October 2014

(via canonical.org) A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity. A program should follow the … Continue reading “Law of Least Astonishment”

(via canonical.org) Thus spake the master programmer: “A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.” — Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming