@Chris: Ich ebenfalls: Reichelsheim/Odenwald. Aber aufgewachsen an der Schweizer Grenze

Ha ha, I understand that!

“German code” doesn’t ring the same bell to me since then!

If i come down there, let’s make sure to meet over a piece of bread, ok?

I think, best bread is in Baden-Württemberg, the southwest region of Germany.

To be honest, I know virtually nothing about the general skill level of German Developers, it’s jut a saying coming from the German things which definitely are of good quality.

Perhaps we should call it Scandinavian Code if you consider that to be quality!

Mattias,

I like the Turkey-safe concept!

Siegfried,

Thanks for the background story!

Jrf,

“Code like a Cosmo Girl” sounds great!

Chris,

The German beer is great; don’t really know about the bread, though.

I also know that there are developers in Germany who are able to write really good code. And I know many sites I did and I’m ashamed

To put it another way, we all know that on average, 99.99 % of all web documents can not be considered “best practice” (even when measuring factors like formatting and indentation …), and Germany would certainly not excel with its 99.999 %. No matter how that sounds, it’s the inconvenient truth I fear, based on unbiased idealism, and wrapped in a charming way to encourage people to try (even) harder (including this person, sure).

So I even though I know what you mean, I think that this is a compliment, some “rouge” that’s not deserved and rather counter-productive (hell, entire Web Germany would love to use code that forces you to download a 16 TB Germany CSS “framework” when you somehow cross virtual borders). But … I’ve got less concerns when you’d say “Scandinavian code” which looks more appropriate already

I somehow think it’s quite fitting

(and yes, I’m a women/girl)

Well, that “made in Germany” = quality, this is quite old and today nearly obsolete. It came from the US governement after the world war 2. They said that all products made in germany had to have a brand “made in Germany”. This was meant to brand products of minor quality (the evil war-looser). But since german handcrafting was indeed something of quality this branding changed. Since these days “made in Germany” is something of quality. And those sayings keep on even if reality is now different. Or at least in large parts different. German handcrafting is still something of quality today. But industrial products are as good or bad as all worldwide. Well, mostly

I never heard this association with coding, but it sounds funny.

Robert, that made my day. Thanks.

What about Swiss Code (from simplistic swiss (graphic) design)?
Or, to leave the nationalistic area: Zen Code, Flowing Code, …

A marketing manager I worked with a couple of years ago mentioned that we needed to create “Turkey safe” (the country Turkey) online marketing campaigns. By doing something “Turkey safe” it should be able to be viewed in Netscape 1.x browser without Javascript and Flash plugins so it could be accessible by a goat herder in the mountain region of Turkey, connected to Internet with 2400 baud modem powered by solar cells. Almost like design by a persona.

(No offence to the Italians)

Up until now i didn’t have a phrase to describe nice, clean code… but I do now. Thank you Robert!