Code Zen

code-zens.md

• In the world of open-source development where most of the code is shared, code clarity and readability is important.
• Object-oriented code architecture allows for much higher clarity and readability than procedural one, especially in complex code.
• Clean and eloquent code is easier to review and independently reviewed code is more reliable and secure.
• Code clarity largely influences the code's reusability for other purposes and by other people.
• Consistency in a coding standard allows for cleaner and more comprehensible documentation.
• Although it requires some tedious work, the usage of semantic checks on a massive scale pays off with more reliable code.
• Adapting some of the familiar conventions that are used for method naming, parameter ordering, and method behavior from othe languages is better than making up new ones.
• Unvarying return types with a fixed type for every method is better than varying return types when a value of one type can be mistaken for a value of another type.
• Underscores in naming are simply depressing -- let's have less of those.