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Re:Hopefully more controversial programming opinions by ajuc on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:03AM (#4453724)
Because understanding exactly what program should do is more important than understanding what are best practices in CS, or how to abstract things.

If you can keep all interactions of your app in your head, then it doesn't matter how badly designed the code is. Architecture is only important because it makes it possible to change things without understanding the whole thing.

And complete understanding with bad architecture beats good architecture with incomplete understanding.

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Re:Hopefully more controversial programming opinions by arethuza on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:57AM (#4453853)
I've never seen anything labelled a "best practise" that has had anything to do with what I would call CS.
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Re:Hopefully more controversial programming opinions by kamaal on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:12AM (#4453743)
>Architecture is only important because it makes it possible to change things without understanding the whole thing.

And for that you need to understand the architecture, ofcourse.

You always need to understand something_(n-1) to understand something_n, ad infinitum

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Re:Hopefully more controversial programming opinions by ajuc on Thursday August 30, 2012 @10:53AM (#4454914)
It's a fractal, yes, but you can do with only understanding your branch in the highest resolution, you don't need all the details of the whole system (if it's well designed).
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