Software Engineering Proverbs
A list of proverbs, most not unique to me
Naming things is the hardest problem in software engineering
That new javascript framework will become old next month
Nobody knows what a monad is
making software simple is hard
You will look at your code in 1 year and think “which idiot wrote this?”
All data processing engines converge to SQL
Software Incompleteness Theorem: no matter how much you test your code, you missed an edge case
Clean code bases don’t exist
For every software principle, there is always a practical use case where it makes sense to break the principle
You won’t refactor it as a fast follow
A few hours of planning can save you weeks of coding
Good software doesn’t mean good business
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