Jeff Johnson
Software engineers delude themselves: "clean" or "simple" code is a myth. I've never seen it in my life.
All useful and enduring code necessarily becomes complex. You need engineers who can handle complexity, dive deep, make order out of chaos, propagate institutional knowledge via documentation and teaching.
Occasionally, code needs to be rewritten from scratch. But this is best managed by those intimate with the old code, who know its strengths and weaknesses, where the bodies are buried.
Adrian Cochrane
@lapcatsoftware I've seen occasional examples of clean & simple code, but it's extremely rare. But usually it's devs erroneously dismissing complexity which is actually necessary!
wizzwizz4
@lapcatsoftware Clean and simple *programs* are a myth, though it is often possible to produce clean and simple *tools*, that make writing real programs easier.
It is also possible, on occasion, to produce powerful libraries with clean interfaces. If they abstract over, or even interact with, the real world, they're going to be complex inside, but that doesn't mean they can't be clean.
Python's urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler demonstrates all this quite well.
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