Constant Abuse 2

Some programmers believe that constants are the source of all goodness, because it means in the future that everything will be malliable.  Particularly programmers paid by the hour.  This is a mistake.  Readibility suffers if constants are abused.  I am reading some code today which exemplifies this.

Brainless Getters & Setters are a Waste

Someone long ago set a pattern that all members should have a getter and setter method.  Some are persuaded that this is OO and this is encapsulation, so a lot of inexperienced programmers do this by default.  But this is a problem.

Never leave ‘commented code’ in the source

Comments in code are good. But not when they consist of old code that has been commented out of the live code. Git rid of that.