Comments on: Are you a bug magnet? http://polymathprogrammer.com/2008/01/18/are-you-a-bug-magnet/ Where entrepreneurship, mathematics and programming meet Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:44:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Vincent Tan http://polymathprogrammer.com/2008/01/18/are-you-a-bug-magnet/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Vincent Tan Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:47:51 +0000 http://polymathprogrammer.com/2008/01/18/are-you-a-bug-magnet/#comment-404 My source code looks good too... :) I think it might have been something from my math background. Math proofs are well laid out and written with logical arguments. So when I started (coding), I was a bit obsessed with indentation, meaningful variable names and lean mean algorithms. Spaghetti code makes me itch... My source code looks good too… :) I think it might have been something from my math background. Math proofs are well laid out and written with logical arguments.

So when I started (coding), I was a bit obsessed with indentation, meaningful variable names and lean mean algorithms. Spaghetti code makes me itch…

]]> By: Ben http://polymathprogrammer.com/2008/01/18/are-you-a-bug-magnet/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Ben Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:18:53 +0000 http://polymathprogrammer.com/2008/01/18/are-you-a-bug-magnet/#comment-402 The value of good clean code is tremendous. I started coding when I was still in elementary school with out any formal education in the field. Back then I wrote really messy unstylized code. In fact I wrote code like that up into my late teens. Hey it worked and run smoothly - used the least amount of systems resources it could and ran fast. I thought no one sees the source so who cares. Well I later learned that if you go back to your source code after a couple of years and its a mesh of spaghetti code it is pretty much useless. It does attract bugs for sure. Now I revel in writing clean code well laid out and stylized code. I make the source look good, and I comment too (granted my comments me be cryptic to anyone else). I have to say, clean code does attract less bugs. The value of good clean code is tremendous. I started coding when I was still in elementary school with out any formal education in the field. Back then I wrote really messy unstylized code.
In fact I wrote code like that up into my late teens. Hey it worked and run smoothly – used the least amount of systems resources it could and ran fast. I thought no one sees the source so who cares.
Well I later learned that if you go back to your source code after a couple of years and its a mesh of spaghetti code it is pretty much useless. It does attract bugs for sure.
Now I revel in writing clean code well laid out and stylized code. I make the source look good, and I comment too (granted my comments me be cryptic to anyone else). I have to say, clean code does attract less bugs.

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