Der größte Feind des Quellcodes
Ein interessanter aber auch etwas länglicher Artikel (wie üblich) zum Thema “Code-Size” von Steve Yegge:
I happen to hold a hard-won minority opinion about code bases. In particular I believe, quite staunchly I might add, that the worst thing that can happen to a code base is size.
I say “size” as a placeholder for a reasonably well-formed thought for which I seem to have no better word in my vocabulary. I’ll have to talk around it until you can see what I mean, and perhaps provide me with a better word for it. The word “bloat” might be more accurate, since everyone knows that “bloat” is bad, but unfortunately most so-called experienced programmers do not know how to detect bloat, and they’ll point at severely bloated code bases and claim they’re skinny as a rail.
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My minority opinion is that a mountain of code is the worst thing that can befall a person, a team, a company. I believe that code weight wrecks projects and companies, that it forces rewrites after a certain size, and that smart teams will do everything in their power to keep their code base from becoming a mountain. Tools or no tools. That’s what I believe.
