Comments on: How Simple Do You Have To Be? http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:58:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Max Kanat-Alexander http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-499 Max Kanat-Alexander Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:36:29 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-499 Absolutely. :-) -Max Absolutely. :-)

-Max

]]> By: Andrew Pennebaker http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-498 Andrew Pennebaker Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:33:55 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-498 Yes, I find that splitting one line of code into n lines to be very favorable. Each middle step uses clearly named variables, unless the process is uber simple like a fibonacci function. When I was working on the Pinky web server, I could have just used four lines of code. But I figured that pulling out constants, converting them into variables, and giving informative names to them would help users configure the software. It's better to waste a few bytes to newlines than spend hours of productivity exploring old and unfamiliar code. Pinky http://yellosoft.us/index.php?id=86 Yes, I find that splitting one line of code into n lines to be very favorable. Each middle step uses clearly named variables, unless the process is uber simple like a fibonacci function. When I was working on the Pinky web server, I could have just used four lines of code. But I figured that pulling out constants, converting them into variables, and giving informative names to them would help users configure the software. It’s better to waste a few bytes to newlines than spend hours of productivity exploring old and unfamiliar code.

Pinky
http://yellosoft.us/index.php?id=86

]]> By: Max Kanat-Alexander http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-195 Max Kanat-Alexander Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:07:30 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-195 Well, here's a good example on short notice--a fictional main file for a calendar program: <pre class="code"> currentUser = User.log_in() currentUser.display_calendar() </pre> That would be opposed to a very long string of code accomplishing the same thing with few methods or functions. And of course, there would be various shades of gray in between. :-) -Max Well, here’s a good example on short notice–a fictional main file for a calendar program:

currentUser = User.log_in()
currentUser.display_calendar()

That would be opposed to a very long string of code accomplishing the same thing with few methods or functions. And of course, there would be various shades of gray in between. :-)

-Max

]]> By: David Bolton http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-194 David Bolton Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:15:46 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/8#comment-194 Show me an example of stupid, dumb simple code. (Compared to not so simple) Show me an example of stupid, dumb simple code. (Compared to not so simple)

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