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The 10 Commandments of Writing Clean Code

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The 10 Commandments of Writing Clean Code

Making your code production-ready one commandment at a time

Sarah Floris
Nov 30, 2022
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The 10 Commandments of Writing Clean Code

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We all want to write clean code. But there are so many opinions on what constitutes as “clean” code. Over the years, I have picked up a few rules of thumb that I follow that help me write cleaner, more organized code. Here are 10 commandments of writing clean code.

  1. Thou shalt write code for thy reader, not thyself.

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