What is clean code?
March 3rd, 2009
In the beginning of his book “Clean Code” Robert C. Martin asks this question from six very well known people in the software world (Bjarne Stroustrup, Grady Booch, Dave Thomas, Michael Feathers, Ron Jeffries and Ward Cunningham). Some have short answer, others more lengthy comments. Most of the people provided a list of different properties of a code which would qualify it as a clean code (and that is perfectly fine definition), but I really like the most and consider it the best definition a comment given by Michael Feathers, that is “clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares“. It feels so damn right!