When comparing Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance vs How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, the Slant community recommends How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built for most people. In the question“What are the books outside the technology field that every developer should read?” How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built is ranked 3rd while Zen and the Art of MotorCycle Maintenance is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built is:
How many studies of code have been done that only cover cutting new code? What happens to code across time? What are the trade offs between easy to maintain and easy to update/upgrade.
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Pro Because he has a wonderful riff on 'gumption'
How do we know how much to tighten a nut ... and then stop? Lovely stuff on fixing things...
Pro Maintainence and Refactoring
How many studies of code have been done that only cover cutting new code? What happens to code across time? What are the trade offs between easy to maintain and easy to update/upgrade.