{"id":1261,"date":"2012-08-29T21:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2012-08-29T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:10:22","slug":"the-apathy-towards-a-good-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-apathy-towards-a-good-code\/","title":{"rendered":"The apathy towards a good code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying in Marwari, my native tongue which translated, &#8220;The kid who shouts a lot gets on daddy&#8217;s back and maybe a candy later.&#8221; Ditto applied to bad code.<\/p>\n<p>If you have written buggy code or code which has been ad-hoc-ly written, it remains in the news all the time. Resources are allocated, people are applauded, attention propagated.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to a beautiful piece of software, thoughtfully planned, carefully architected, written with a maximum awareness to the future in mind. This disappears like a perfectly oiled gear-wheel which does not make noise.\u00a0It&#8217;s agility in reducing the friction and keeping up with the torque of \u00a0larger than it was designed for engine goes un-noticed.<\/p>\n<p>A good code is like a child who does not get daddy&#8217;s adequate attention because he is nice, mellow and &#8220;works&#8221; as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying in Marwari, my native tongue which translated, &#8220;The kid who shouts a lot gets on daddy&#8217;s back and maybe a candy later.&#8221; Ditto applied to bad code. If you have written buggy code or code which has been ad-hoc-ly written, it remains in the news all the time. Resources are allocated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}