Why it pays to take the time to write readable code.
Written on 28 Sep 2008
Just in case we still have to make the point:
There’s certainly evidence that that “exploratory” approach to computing is an important job skill. Beth Simon and Andy Begel’s recent series of papers on their study of new hires at Microsoft show that the first year of work is mostly spent understanding existing code, not writing new code.
From Mark Guzdial.
Filed in: IT industry, Software culture.
Thanks for that Steve. It makes sense, but I never thought of it like that before.