Forget about Clean Code, let's embrace Compassionate Code » Thinking Inside a Bigger Box
When your heroes start acting weird, you reexamine their influence on your life. I've long been learning, demonstrating and teaching clean code through TDD, patterns and so on. But when I look back, I am now worried that the ideas negatively influence my life and my work and that of others.
Many who know me consider me an exceptionally skilled programmer. I got that way because I have often spent my evenings practicing programming techniques and technologies. I often leave the office 1-2 hours later than my co-workers after polishing some piece of ultimately meaningless code. This is time I don't spend with my family. Because I've learned to care about Clean Code.
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