Though I'm a pretty rusty, out of practice programmer, I certainly echo Frank's response pointing to readability. Not just the code itself, but also (mainly?) in the documentation of the software artefact, a straightforward diagram and discussion of how it fits into an overall architecture. Complete with lots of simple, illustrative examples of its capabilities and limitations.
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 9:10 AM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > I am keynoting the International Conference on Code Quality on April 22. It > will be speculative and philosophical, but I would like to know "code > quality" might mean, is taken for granted to mean, to professional coders. I > know what it means for this conference, but would like a broader base from > which to launch my flights of fancy. > > davew > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
