Hacker Bits, Issue 11
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this is incorrect. Our job is to solve software problems to a level of quality and maintainability that<br />
suits the environment we are working in. That doesn’t always have to involve writing code. Code is the<br />
glue that ties together the rest of our experience and knowledge, it’s not the most important thing to<br />
focus on.<br />
3. Understanding reduces code<br />
What is the worst by-product of creating and maintaining software? Most people would say ‘technical<br />
debt’. Technical debt can be many things but a large part of it is the source code. I want to emphasise<br />
that it’s not always poorly written code. Standards, frameworks and even languages change over time.<br />
Code that was written very well at the time may simply be unusable or incompatible years later and<br />
require large refactoring.<br />
If you have been writing code for several years I’m sure you could look back at an earlier time when all<br />
you wanted to do at the start of a problem was jump in and write some code. The drive to find the best<br />
technical solution is what makes most of us love what we do as software engineers. At the same time<br />
your former self will also admit that you may have dived in without fully understanding what was needed<br />
for the solution - this causes a lot more code to be created.<br />
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