A Programmer's Role

A Programmer’s Role September 02 2014 The other day I found an article from 1967 that could easily be called “Clean Code, 1967 edition”. The article explains what separates bad programmers from good ones, and bad programs from good ones. One of the main themes of the article is how to make our programs so that they survive the passage of time, entropy as they called it back then, or code rot as textbooks call it today. So one of the main features a program can have is its ability to adapt: A program is rare