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lopatir29-Nov-17 5:20
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Gary Wheeler29-Nov-17 6:56
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I still struggle with the habit of over-engineering a solution to a given problem
My two ¢'s: That's a problem for really junior programmers, who re-invent the wheel because they don't know about the toolbox full of perfectly good wheels, and senior old farts like you and I, who have been down this road before too many times and think we need this and that. I have trouble remembering YAGNI: You Ain't Gonna Need It.

I read an article once about suppressing the urge to make things in your code "general purpose", which is also my tendency. The author said that the only reason to generalize the solution to a problem was if you needed it to work more than three different ways. Three or less, just copy/paste/tailor and go on.
Software Zen: delete this;

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