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future, I'll be dead, and posterity can do whatever they like... :-) --lwall
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Architecture astronautics (Score:1)
“In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general – and often we know it too quickly.” —Alan J. Perlis, “Epigrams on Programming”
The first time you do something you have no idea how to solve the problem yet, so you just do whatever you need for the task at hand. The second time, you copy your first design and tweak it to fit the new requirements. The third time, you go back and replace special-case functionality with hooks and indirections w
Agreed (Score:2)