Tag archive for “Refactoring”
“Refactoring is the act of improving code that has already been improved.”
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
12.14.09 | Best Practices, Development Process, Ethics, Problem Solving, Programming, Refactoring | Permalink
“Even perfect program verification can only establish that a program meets its specification…. Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.”
12.10.09 | Clean Code, Development Process, Programming, Project Management, Refactoring | Permalink
“Understandability is next to godliness.”
“Remember that your code is for a human first and a computer second. Humans need good names. Take note of when you have spent ages trying to do something that would have been easier if a couple of methods had been better named. Good naming is a skill that requires practice; improving this skill is the key to being a truly skillful programmer.”