Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

Maintainability

Software can be maintained more easily when it is designed properly. Generally speaking, if you are able to effectively use the design principles listed previously (SOLID, KISS, DRY, POLA, YAGNI, and POLP), then your application is more likely to be well architected and designed for long-term maintenance.

Maintainability is an important ingredient for large-scale applications. A research project from graduate school may not last long. On the contrary, an enterprise application may last for decades. Recently, I heard from a colleague that COBOL is still in use and COBOL programmers are still making a good living.

We often hear about technical debt. Similar to monetary debt in real life, technical debt is something that you ...