Characteristics of a Good Program

◀ How to Program Efficiently▶ Code Footprint Amazon Let’s first discuss characteristics of a good program. The code that achieves some purpose can be written in so many different ways; so how do we judge whether a program is well written?

To answer this question let’s look at the core properties of a program: code size, efficiency, memory footprint, and reliability. In general a good program should have the following properties:

• short code size
• high efficiency
• low memory footprint
• and high reliability

Below we’ll look at each property and explain why they are true!
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