[RandyRanderson]

I wish more ppl felt this way. What a compliment it is to oneself when I hear ppl saying "write clean code" as if they know its address and had dinner with clean code just last night.

I was thinking there should be some metric around d(code)/dt . That is, as the software is used, 'bad' code will tend to change a lot but add no functionality. 'Good' code will change little even when it's used mode.

[AlotOfReading]

d(code)/dt isn't a very good metric though. Think of the Linux kernel. Drivers get some of the least maintenance work and are broadly the lowest quality part of the kernel. arch/ is busier than drivers/, but anything you find in the parts being touched are also significantly higher quality.