Discussion on: How would you define high quality code?

[Florian Rohrer]

My personal definition is very subjective: A code is of high quality if

• someone other than the author can read and understand it, without investing too much time and coginitive effort
• it follows the conventions of your field (using familiar variable names, familiar abbreviations, familiar unit systems), whatever they might be.
• and one thing (source file / class / package) solves one task.