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But what's a "problem"? (Score:1)

by Adrian (66)

Many people cite the famous quote "Premature optimization root of all evil", but that's just a specific case of a more general problem: trying to fix things that aren't identified as a problem. YAGNI is God.

I, of course, agree completely :-)
However it can be tricky to pull off if different people have different ideas of what a "problem" is. To me, duplicate and/or unclear code is a big problem. Something that needs fixing straight away. Other people don't seem to think that way unfortunately.
- Re:But what's a "problem"? (Score:2)
  
  by drhyde (1683)
  
  I'm of the opinion that premature generalisation of code is just as evil as premature optimisation. So many people want to write all-things-to-all-men generic frameworks when all their customer has asked for is Hello World.
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    by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2005.10.15 11:27 (#43913) Homepage Journal
    
    Architecture astronauts [joelonsoftware.com]?
    
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