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A lot of projects I've worked on have utility libraries consisting of mostly stateless, pure functions -- I have a theory that these constitute some of the long
by msluyter 10y ago
A lot of projects I've worked on have utility libraries consisting of mostly stateless, pure functions -- I have a theory that these constitute some of the longest lived code. That, and database models, which tend to be easier to expand than to contract. I'd be curious to see some analysis along these lines.
- jtigger 10y agoNice hypothesis! Reminds me of the shearing layers from Foote & Yoder's "Big Ball of Mud" — http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#ShearingLayers http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#ShearingLayers