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Originally Posted by 73qanda
Fergusd can you give some brief ( easily understood) examples of how high quality code is different from most code? Or how the process of writing/developing it is different?
High quality code is code which has been written, tested, tweaked, tested, tweaked again, tested again until all foreseeable outcomes and possible conflicts have been examined and the code is still doing what it was initially designed to do.

This takes time to do properly. The difference between good code and bad code is simply the point at which you stop testing and declare that it is ‘good enough’.
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