But it does matter. If you ever had to do any sort of code maintenance or expanding of existing code this is obvious. Code that is "clean"/"good" is easier to work with. "Does the code work?" is very important, but it doesn't even begin to be good code.
These books you mention, I would love to hear your arguments against their actual point instead of dismissing them by mentioning Linux or any other project, since that's not really the point.
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But it does matter. If you ever had to do any sort of code maintenance or expanding of existing code this is obvious. Code that is "clean"/"good" is easier to work with. "Does the code work?" is very important, but it doesn't even begin to be good code.
These books you mention, I would love to hear your arguments against their actual point instead of dismissing them by mentioning Linux or any other project, since that's not really the point.