Similar to the defactoring-then-refactoring mentioned in the article, one approach I find useful is moving things towards point-free style ( https://en.wikipedi

Similar to the defactoring-then-refactoring mentioned in the article, one approach I find useful is moving things towards point-free style ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming ), which can discard lots of extraneous layers and plumbing. Then variables and abstractions can be introduced, to avoid the more horrible aspects of point-free code (e.g. `(.) . (.)` sillyness)