# There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code

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**Created:** [29 January 2022 02:05 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/there-s-no-such-thing-as-clean-code/38326 "2022-01-29T02:05:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![dimitarvp](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/dimitarvp/32/5599_2.png) [@dimitarvp](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/dimitarvp)\
**Post date:** [17 February 2022 01:22 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/there-s-no-such-thing-as-clean-code/38326/5 "2022-02-17T01:22:15Z")

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Quite true.

I personally read “clean code” as “something I can pick up in 5 minutes if I haven’t touched the code base in a year” which is IMO a good pragmatic way of looking at it.

But too many people have been living in poverty, became programmers and skipped five social ladder steps in the upwards direction… and then super quickly became insufferable snobs that started writing bullshit like “clean code aesthete” in their biographies. 🤦 (Yes, I’ve actually seen that and was flabbergasted)

The older I get the more extreme I become. Our area needs a serious cleanup. 😑

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