Java By Comparison

What Have You Learned?

So you’ve read through the first set of comparisons and arrived at this page. First of all, thanks! We’re happy that you stuck with us this far. You’ve already learned a lot about a important topic: writing readable code. Maintaining existing code is what we spend most of our effort on these days, and you’ll seldom start a project from the green field. Most of the time, your boss will hurl a gigantic heap of code at you that you’re supposed to fix and extend.

When that happens, you’ll be grateful if the person who wrote the code cared about readability. So be nice to your fellow programmer and strive for code readability! Also, you never know; even if you think you’ve concluded a project, your boss might reassign you and ...