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Richard MacCutchan wrote:

Don't know where you got those links form

TheOnlyRealTodd wrote:

If not, what exactly are most employers judging you on? If they don't really care about the code quality, then what are they looking for in the interview?

California 90025 wrote:

there is no objectively "well written" software

California 90025 wrote:

Another thing is there is no objectively "well written" software. When you go out into the industry (I'm assuming you still haven't or are new to it), you will come across all kinds of a-holes who find fault with every f-ing thing no matter how well it's written. I think there was someone who posted here about how the boss rejected his code because the others were too incompetent to understand it.

California 90025 wrote:

California 90025

1. avoid bugs with sound and state of the art principles and
2. mostly maintainability. (my main point, because I use code with 10+ years)

// some think this is cleaner
var x = (y == 5) ? 0 : 1;

// and, some think this is cleaner
var x;
if(y == 5) {
  x = 0;
} else {
  x = 1;
}

// or this
var x;
if(y == 5)
{
  x = 0;
}
else
{
  x = 1;
}

// or this too
var x;
if(y == 5)
  x = 0;
else
  x = 1;

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

And who's really right or wrong?

IF y = 5 THEN
    x = 0
ELSE
    x = 1
END-IF.

Mark_Wallace wrote:

COBOL