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title: "Polite Code, News Articles, And Pulling Out Early"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/9/21/polite-code-news-articles-and-pulling-out-early.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/9/21/polite-code-news-articles-and-pulling-out-early.html"
published: "2012-09-21T12:26:32"
updated: "2012-09-21T12:26:32"
tags: ["tdd"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Christine Gorman gave a talk about getting rid of unneeded complexity in code, but removing ideas many of us (me too) find make it more readable. I couldn’t explain why I disagreed with her, except that I like the…"
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# Polite Code, News Articles, And Pulling Out Early

By Roy Osherove September 21, 2012 In [tdd](https://osherove.com/blog/category/tdd)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 21, 2012; technical details may be outdated.

Christine Gorman [gave a talk about getting rid of unneeded complexity](https://vimeo.com/49484333) in code, but removing ideas many of us (me too) find make it more readable. I couldn’t explain why I disagreed with her, except that I like the “style” of the way I wrote code better. so it reads like a book.

But [uncle bob nails the description of the quality of the code](https://raw.github.com/gist/3753571/2f3a8702a0fd0ae08f9778956b8efe4d998b4d65/gistfile1.txt) that I like to write and read: Read it here.

It \*is\* like a newspaper article that slowly drills down into more and more details. It \*does\* let me stop reading it if I need to move over to something else.

Good job Uncle bob. 

Christin is a very passionate speaker. I am trying to get her to do a podcast with me on video (because she lives in Norway too). what do you think?

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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