Ruth Malan — SystemsJun 19

“Red Flag: Hard to Pick Name

If it’s hard to find a simple name for a variable or method that creates a clear image of the underlying object, that’s a hint that the underlying object may not have a clean design.”

— John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

Show threadRebecca Wirfs-Brock
@RuthMalan And a paraphrase complementary heuristic, shared by Eric Evans at a DDDEu talk one year... purposefully give awkward names to cncepts that are unclear about or that you are still figuring out what they should be in your design
Jun 19 at 6:01pmWeb
Show threadRebecca Wirfs-BrockJun 19
@RuthMalan note: I think that was in a talk about Playing with the concept of time...