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Kent Beck

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Kent Beck wrote about this in his great book Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns and again more recently in his equally great book Implementation Patterns. One of the more powerful ways to make a program readable is to break the calculations up into intermediate values that are held in variables with meaningful names.

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Kent Beck made it one of the core principles of Extreme Programming and called it: “Once, and only once.”