Drinkingbird: You should care what your code looks like http://www.drinkingbird.net/blog/articles/2007/12/19/you-should-care-what-your-code-looks-like en-us 40 Random keyboard peckings You should care what your code looks like <p>The latest post over at Coding Horror, <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001022.html">&#8220;Nobody Cares What Your Code Looks Like&#8221;</a> is one of the strange posts that pop up occasionally where it seems that Jeff Atwood has missed the point entirely.</p> <p>The elegance/ugliness of the code behind an application is immensely important in the maintenance and extension of any software, and particularly for open source software where it&#8217;s crucial that people <em>want</em> to work on your code.</p> <p>The mind boggles, really. Well, at least I got through that without making a jab at Jeff for his VB use.</p> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:03:00 -0600 urn:uuid:0e352b16-136a-4903-a091-bf36cfb5f0b5 Chris http://www.drinkingbird.net/blog/articles/2007/12/19/you-should-care-what-your-code-looks-like Ramblings