Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, 2nd Edition

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Maintain High Productivity

6. I will do all that I can to keep the productivity of myself and others as high as possible. I will do nothing that decreases that productivity.

Productivity. That’s quite a topic, isn’t it. How often do you feel that it’s the only thing that matters at your job? If you think about it, productivity is what this book, and what all my books on software, is about.

They’re about how to go fast.

And what we’ve learned over the last eight decades of software is that the way you go fast is to go well.

The only way to go fast is to go well.

So you keep your code clean. You keep your designs clean. You write semantically stable tests and keep your coverage high. You know and use appropriate design patterns. You keep your ...