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Also, DRY, WET, YAGNI are useful ideas.
by paulddraper 3mo ago
Also, DRY, WET, YAGNI are useful ideas.
- DanielVZ 3mo agoYep. That's what they are. Useful ideas. The issue is treating them as rules or excuses for early/unnecesary abstractions.
- bitwize 3mo agoWe've been fighting this war since Design Patterns at least. Remember those? Engineers who Get Things Done treat them like TV Tropes—useful vocabulary for talking about recurring ideas in software development. Suits in the 2000s treated them like immutable laws.