korrents

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Lines of code cannot measure productivity, because better-designed code is shorter.

Drawn from what Martin Fowler said

What these subjects mean

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

Less, but better

What Martin Fowler actually said

  1. Martin Fowler Chief scientist at Thoughtworks and author of Refactoring
    Any good developer knows that they can code the same stuff with huge variations in lines of code, furthermore code that's well designed and factored will be shorter because it eliminates the duplication.

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