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Re:Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation by shareIdeas on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:22AM (#20497731)
I don't think there is a correct answer, but I like that a developer has foresight.
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Re:Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation by mattnewton on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:08PM (#20499369)
The problem is you get more information in the future, but all this boilerplate is has been written before that information so the first instinct / seemingly least-resistance thing to do is to fit the new information into the old boilerplate / hierarchy.

Lots of people have OO scar tissue from getting weird impedance mismatches on newish OO systems designed this way.

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Re:Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation by sullyj3 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:27AM (#20504388)
Real foresight is understanding the cost of unnecessary technical debt.
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Re:Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation by kissgyorgy on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:08AM (#20505815)
This is a pretty common misconception. I have yet to see a bit of perfect abstraction that has been written before the problem occured.
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