# A plea to software developers everywhere
Personal, technological @ 03 April 2007
Please please please please follow basic development guidelines and good programming practice:
- Comment your code
- Use a build folder and a source folder, so you are not mixing compiled files with sourcecode files
- Don’t use “goto”s, and avoid using “do {} while()” loops
Also try to follow guidelines for the language you are using.
e.g. in most Object Oriented languages you should use a capital letter for all class names (and whatever you do please don’t use an underscore as the first letter!)
I say this because yesterday I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what somebody else has written, and although some of it made sense, it just wasn’t good code to update and could not have updated it in the time that I had to do it in.
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