Re:Wearing Out My Delete Key
by iron_ball on Monday August 04, 2008 @01:15PM
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The danger is that you have to discipline yourself to refactor -- you can't just stay in hack mode or it's Big Ball of Mud time. Hack-and-refactor is a straight and narrow path. It's hard for analytical modelers like me to commit to the hacking part; it's hard for go-with-the-flow cowboys to commit to the refactoring part.
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Actually, my problem is disciplining myself to hold off on refactoring. But I understand what you mean -- there are far too many people who aren't interested in going back over stuff they've already written.