Joshua Bloch Quotes

• When in doubt, leave it out.

  Joshua Bloch

  Doubt, Programming, When In Doubt

  "Joshua Bloch: A conversation about design". Interview with Bill Venners, www.javaworld.com. January 4, 2002.

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• What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.

  Joshua Bloch

  Expression, Names, Variables

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• The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.

  Joshua Bloch

  Running, Easy, Program

  "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". Book by Peter Seibel, 2009.

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• When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

  Joshua Bloch

  Community, Language, Trade

  "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". Book by Peter Seibel, 2009.

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• It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

  Joshua Bloch

  Writing, Pieces, Code

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• One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

  Joshua Bloch

  Names, Factories, Advantage

  Joshua Bloch (2008). “Effective Java”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional

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