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Source Code is the documentation

Original post can be found at It-Eye

In an Agile environment we try to creat “just enough documentation” and “just enough architecture”. To achieve this we need our source code to become a part of the documentation.
At this point most developers will jump in the air and all others will go “oooh NO”. The reason why we have such reactions is because developers think they don’t need to do anything and all others think the code is not readable. I must say that in the past the last argument was pretty much true, but all of this has changed or it needs to change fast. Continue reading →

Coding size or language syntax, does it matter?

Original post can be found at It-Eye

There are lot of programming languages in the world, there is one for everybody. All those languages have something in common and that is that they are trying to help you solve a problem. But they all try to do it there own way.
Every company has struggled one way or another to chose what programming language to use for a project. If they haven’t then they probably chose what they already have been using. For those that have been choosing most of the time they were looking at things like, can we find experts, is the language fast, secure, does it help us solve our problems faster and tools for the language. But have we ever looked at code size or language syntax and decided on that as well? Probably not, but should we? Continue reading →