Business Value
Although largely hidden from the view of most business users, well-chosen identifiers make it significantly easier for subsequent generations of analysts and developers to understand what the system is doing and how to fix or extend the source code for new business needs.
For example, although the following:
a = b * c;is syntactically correct, it is entirely opaque as to intent or meaning. Contrast this with:
weekly_pay = hours_worked * pay_rate;which implies the intent and meaning of the source code, at least to those familiar with the underlying context of the application.
Read more about this topic: Naming Convention (programming)
Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,—chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)