Quote: want a dialogue style of programming with a modular distribution of knowledge and clean communication between pieces of knowledge [»atkiR_1977]

Ref: Fowler, Martin et al, Refactoring: improving the design of existing code, Addison Wesley 1999.

Quote: a book on how to write good, understandable programs that are correct the first time [»ledgHF_1975]

Quote: style is the consistent pattern of choices; good coding style is easily understood, straightforward, and elegant [»fairRE_1985]

Quote: programming style is measured by the effort needed to understand code [»gordRD3_1979]

Quote: what can be said at all, can be said clearly [»dijkEW_1979]

Quote: a program is readable if novices can understand it in terms of its subject area [»spooCR4_1986]

Quote: if it is hard to understand something, it is hard to find inspirations and to avoid mistakes [»greeTR_1980]

Quote: a measure of program understanding is the number of times spent viewing the program in order to answer a question [»scanDA9_1989]

Quote: programming languages should emphasize readability by human beings, not computers [»hoarCA_1974]

Quote: the readability of programs is immeasurably more important than their writeability; self-documenting code; pleasant style [»hoarCA_1974]

Quote: in exploratory development environments, program readability is critical

Quote: an easy to read program is easier to write since programmers must check their work

Quote: unary Smalltalk messages can be composed into readable expressions [»xlrg8_1981]

Quote: a true test of self-documenting design is whether its maintainability is maintained [»weinGM_1982]

Quote: a program's results are convincing only if the program is clear and its structure reflects the task [»dijkEW5_1965]

Quote: threaded programs rely on programming style to constrain their nondeterminism

Quote: need specification standards with pragmatics, formating, naming conventions, language restrictions [»tretJ9_2001]

Quote: coding rules for safety-critical applications in C; e.g., simple control flow, short functions, assertions, check args, avoid pointers, no warnings [»holzGJ6_2006]

Quote: programming guidelines require motivation, participation, revision, exceptions, and automated adherence [»fairRE_1985]

QuoteRef: ledgHF7_1977 ;;102 standard heading: title, name, summary, descriptions of input and output files, notes

QuoteRef: cwalK_2006 ;;Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and patterns for reusable .NET libraries

Quote: the most readable program was procedureless with comments, the least was procedureless without comments (73 lines of code) [»tennT9_1988]

Quote: programming languages should not favour abbreviation of writing by default conventions and implicit assumptions

Quote: all programming styles indent the body of structured constructs [»leavGT2_1984]

Quote: specifying data types makes code more readable [»nielJ5_1989]

Quote: avoid unnecessary spaces [»cwalK_2006]

Quote: order class members by field, constructors, properties, methods, events, implementation, private members, and nested types [»cwalK_2006]

Quote: need conventions to reduce uncertainty about a machine's state; computers have very great flexibility [»turiA3_1951]

Quote: in object-oriented programming, more than one variable may be polymorphic; requires case analysis and poor modularity [»ingaDH9_1986]

Quote: use a stylized representation for design concepts that do not match the programming language; e.g., delegation in C++ [»stroB_1991]

Quote: literate programs written for understanding by humans; programmer as essayist; concepts presented in best order either formally or informally [»knutDE2_1984]

Quote: need a rigorous review after programming and before debugging; often caused major improvements or revised design strategies [»corbFJ_1979]

Quote: C's lint program caches most type errors; misses union types and use of explicit escapes [»ritcDM7_1978c]

Quote: a bug checker uses static analysis to find correctness violations; while a style checker identifies code style violations [»hoveD12_2004]

Quote: military programmers are so concerned about efficiency that they will tune for their compiler even though readability is destroyed [»goodJB8_1976]

Quote: PDS is a programming environment that does not enforce a programming discipline; but hopefully it encourages good programming practices [»cheaTE_1979]

Quote: a programming language should maximize the ability to write readable programs [»spooCR4_1986]

Quote: a programming language's style should reduce housekeeping in its domain while allowing expression in other domains [»blumBI_1985]

Quote: a programming language's style translates brief statements into complex functions

Quote: a programming language should have a small framework that can accommodate many powerful features as changeable parts [»backJ8_1978a]

Quote: use at most three parameters; do not use many parameters with the same type [»blocJ_2001]

Quote: define parameters as interfaces instead of classes; greater flexibility without copy operations [»blocJ_2001]

Quote: in studies found 'if p..not p' far easier to understand than 'if..then..else'; later never used in natural languages [»greeTR_1980]

Quote: zero, one, and infinity are the only reasonable numbers in program language design [»maclBJ_1987]

Quote: banned all mystery numbers above two [»clarBL9_1973]

Quote: programmers used integer and character values as status values; indicated by comments [»goodJB2_1976]

Quote: executable code should not be modified; was a big clarity problem with machine code [»dijkEW5_1965]