Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime
hikaru755@feddit.de 10 months agoIt’s easier to understand, easier to review for correctness, and less likely to cause problems with additional changes in the future. Even though it sounds counterintuitive, software developers generally try to write as little code as possible. Any code you write is a potential liability that has to be maintained, so if you can instead just use code that others have already written and that has been tested, you’ll want to use that. (Note that “less code” doesn’t mean fewer lines of code, it means less logical complexity, which is often, but not always, also less in terms of characters/lines)
Jarix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So like my english teacher taught me. Keep It Stupid Simple(though he would say keep it simple stupid to some people in class i am just realizing now 20+ years later)
hikaru755@feddit.de 10 months ago
Exactly that! KISS is an often cited rule among software devs.