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Jérémy's avatar

It reminds me of a quote I totally align with :

“Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.” — Michael Feathers.

I read it in a context where the subject to care off was the code itself or the craft of writing the code.

So to me, your perspective is way more empowering because you make your reader explicitely accountable to another human being, not an abstract representation of a process or a set of guidelines.

Pierrick Blons's avatar

Can't wait for the entire trilogy :)

Kent Beck's avatar

Thank you for your subscription. It helps.

Allan Mertner's avatar

Well said. Thank you.

안영회's avatar

I read your great writing, write down your appreciation in Korean, and share it with Koreans. I hope you can read this article using a translator:

https://brunch.co.kr/@graypool/341

Kent Beck's avatar

Thank you for the taking the time to read, understand, and apply what I write. I am not an easy author to translate, I'm afraid. I hope the Korean software development community embraces tidying, whenever they choose to tidy.

TidyingFan's avatar

Looking forward to it. Best

Valentin Tudor Mocanu's avatar

Good/bad software design affects product quality, quickness and steadiness of the deliveries.

What harm will we do if something bad happens to our SW? User comfort, little money, lots of money, human lives (~ Alistair Cockburn criticality). Our customer and the customers of our customers will be also affected.