Code Readability is soo Important…
Always write your code in a way that the next developer maintaining your code could be an axe swinging madman who knows where you live.
An unknown programmer (hopefully still alive and well…)
Clean code is simple and direct. Clean code reads like well-written prose. Clean code never obscures the designer’s intent but rather is full of crisp abstractions and straightforward lines of control.
Grady Booch
For almost ten years now, I’m a freelancer in the field of software development. Effectively, I’m something like a well-paid stand-by man who almost always is supposed to work with an already existing codebase that needs to be extended or treated in some other way (e.g. refactored or covered with tests). An important part of the job is to quickly get familiar with this codebase – it’s the single key factor for my professional success. And to succeed, I’m reliant on the code being carefully crafted and not holding any surprises. That’s why I’ve come to value well-written code really high over the years.