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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by the_af on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:30PM (#21150318)
> Being 'good at refactoring' is only a desirable feature if you are spending a lot of your time refactoring code.

Not a fan of TDD, eh?

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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by ukj on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:02PM (#21152721)
TDD has its uses. BDD has its uses. Code first - test later has its uses. YOLO has its uses.

Not a fan of silver bullets.

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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by the_af on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:33PM (#21152979)
I don't disagree with the "no silver bullet" quote, but you can't answer every question with that phrase. I also agree re TDD, etc.

But your comment is still odd. Refactoring seems to be a core tenet of modern programming (regardless of TDD). In TDD in particular it's a central part of how you work, and so your remark sounds odd unless you also claim you don't believe in TDD :)

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