Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

So, another way to know that a function is doing more than “one thing” is if you can extract another function from it with a name that is not merely a restatement of its implementation [G34].

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

Objects hide their data behind abstractions and expose functions that operate on that data. Data structure expose their data and have no meaningful functions.

Mature programmers know that the idea that everything is an object is a myth. Sometimes you really do want simple data structures with procedures operating on them.

Most developers do not have an intuitive feel for how threading interacts with other code (authors included).

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