What is the Essence of Quality Code?

musings and quality | Apr 21, 2015

Are you a good programmer? How do you know? The definition of “good code” is probably very subjective, but maybe it can be helpful to try and define some less-subjective criteria for discerning between good code (a.k.a “my code”) and the terrible excuses for code I have to wade through every day (a.k.a “my code from the month before”).