Ugly code can mean lots of things: code someone else wrote, code with inconsistent white space placement, code that takes up too many lines, code that requires too many command + clicks to parse, code that looks redundant. I was struggling with the last of these recently. To me, some code a colleague wrote looked redundant. And vice versa, they thought code I wrote was unnecessarily duplicated. They’d built an API client for our new (weeks-old) test automation suite. It had everything the A...
