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		kyled on March 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is good code? A scientific definition Great code is mostly pure, dense, defines clean interfaces, and favors composition and reuse. Maintenance, testability , readability etc. are just side effects of well written code.

mcphage on March 11, 2015 [–]

What do you mean by dense?

clebio on March 11, 2015 | | [–]

Would guess "concise" or "efficient".

innguest on March 11, 2015 | | [–]

Dense = "golfed" (in current programming parlance).

For instance, Java code is not dense because there's a lot of ceremony, whereas Perl is dense and has little to no ceremony.

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