[drooby]

I ask myself. “How hard will this be to change?” Or, “does this promote a pattern which will evolve into something difficult to change?”

Bad code to me is code that is difficult to modify or extend. “Difficult” to me implies a higher likely hood of regressions or time spent working.

Probably the worst thing of all is the “wrong abstraction”. Concepts that have been shoehorned into other abstractions - bloating method signatures and variables - obfuscating the intent of the names. This issue becomes cancer that causes a ton of other problems.

Great code reads closer to English language. The bottom of the call stack has high level abstract language and the top of the call stack is highly specific. With module on the stack maintaining a consistent degree of abstract language.