> when it comes to day-to-day production code, here's the barometer I like to use: will a junior developer, someone at the very start of their career, struggle to understand this code?
this is one of the stupidest things ever said about any piece of code. how about you give that feedback to beethoven (and other great composers)? hey beeth, can you please make your music piece so simple that a junior pianist can play it? this thing over here requires too much study and virtuoso to play, and that's not something we want to aspire to.
or to euclid: hey can you remove this _pons asinorum_ here? i have a beginner whose struggling to understand the isosceles triangle. clever code is art to be studied and enjoyed. they are the vehicles of growth, of new and important ideas. holding them off for the sake of a proverbial junior is stupid.
this is one of the stupidest things ever said about any piece of code. how about you give that feedback to beethoven (and other great composers)? hey beeth, can you please make your music piece so simple that a junior pianist can play it? this thing over here requires too much study and virtuoso to play, and that's not something we want to aspire to.
or to euclid: hey can you remove this _pons asinorum_ here? i have a beginner whose struggling to understand the isosceles triangle. clever code is art to be studied and enjoyed. they are the vehicles of growth, of new and important ideas. holding them off for the sake of a proverbial junior is stupid.