Docstrings considered too complicated

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 3 00:40:00 EST 2010


Ben Finney wrote:

> Just as customers should demand both that a building be built to do its
> job well, *and* that its architectural plans meet measurable, testable
> industry standards of quality for independent re-use at some
> indeterminate later date.

A problem is that it's very hard to come up with
*measurable* standards of code quality.

There's no equivalent in the software world of
specifying a grade of steel or type of sand.
The things that really matter are all subjective.

-- 
Greg



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