Fred Moyer

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October 20, 2009, on Software Design Review:
"Programmers will not keep themselves honest." I've seen senior, principal, and senior principal programmers who can write beautiful algorithms, construct advanced object hierarchies, and implement what many would consider to be elegantly architected solutions. Those senior programmers will give you a perfect solution; yet still you'll run into issues mentioned where pages will take five minutes to render. Confront these senior programmers with the issue, and the response will be something along the order of "what's the problem, the solution is perfect?". And because these programmers are considered experienced, management will often back them up. There is a certain class of programmers who will keep themselves honest. This class of programmers has had to deal with customers directly. They have experienced the mistakes of not documenting, not testing, and writing cool, clever, elegant code instead of code that may be ugly but robust. They will provide some documentation, but...