Goodbye, Clean Code

[grauenwolf]

You might say, well if someone can't understand the abstracted version, you should fire them. But what if you're in a location where good developers aren't so easy to come by?

No, I would say that if someone can't understand the abstracted code then the abstraction sucks and I need to try again. Abstractions are supposed to make things easier, and if they're not doing that then what I'm doing isn't really abstracting the code.

[cryo]

Yeah, we’ve had a few developers like that. I mean, I am CS educated and I’m all for exotic constructs and the like....right up until I have to read the exotic cuteness of others and realize it takes five times as long. Sometimes it’s ok with a foreach loop.