That Old British Guy
Jun 01, 2007“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
- Winston Churchill
It seems like the topic of less code being better has started to spring up again. Though I do like the Wil Shipley’s spin on the meme about making your code inflexible. I figure it’s only a matter of time before people start blogging again about writing code to be readable.
This is why Ruby is a fantastic language. It is one of the only languages I’ve ever used where I can write code, leave it alone for 6 months, and still have an idea of what’s going on when I come back to it. Ruby may not be as fast as C, or have a VM like Java and .NET, but it resists code rot far better than any other language I’ve ever used.