notes/thoughts from the pages i had read today, quotes are in "quotation marks". : "consistent indentation style was one of the most statistically significant indicators of low bug density" - care in details matters, not to maintain a program is the same as abandoning it. "quality is the result of a million selfless acts of care" “One might argue that a book about code is somehow behind the times—that code is no longer the issue; that we should be concerned about models and requirements instead. Indeed some have suggested that we are close to the end of code. That soon all code will be generated instead of written. That programmers simply won’t be needed because business people will generate programs from specifications. Nonsense! We will never be rid of code, because code represents the details of the requirements. At some level those details cannot be ignored or abstracted; they have to be specified. And specifying requirements in such detail that a machine can execute them is…
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