The importance of having clean code

There are a huge number of reasons why clean code is important. Most of them revolve around the ideas of maintainability, reducing technical debt, working effectively with agile development, and managing a successful project.

The first idea I would like to explore is in regards to agile development and continuous delivery. If we want our project to be able to successfully deliver features constantly at a steady and predictable pace, then having a good and maintainable code base is a must.

Imagine you are driving a car on a road toward a destination you want to reach at a certain point in time. You have to estimate your arrival time so that you can tell the person who is waiting for you. If the car works ...

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