Many people think that the readability of code has to do with the letters and symbols used. They believe it is the adding, removing, or changing of those symbols that makes code more readable. In some sense, they’re right. However, the underlying principle is: Readability of code depends primarily on how space is occupied by letters and symbols. What does…

In the context of The Equation of Software Design, it is now possible to reduce the primary principles of software design into just two statements: It is more important to reduce the Effort of Maintenance than it is to reduce the Effort of Implementation. The Effort of Maintenance is proportional to the complexity of the system. And that is pretty…

So today I was playing around with a little equation that may in fact explain nearly all of the principles of software design.…