As a relatively young programmer, I feel that I'm just now exiting this stage of over-abstraction and pursuing a "perfect" design. Perhaps it does plague many o

As a relatively young programmer, I feel that I'm just now exiting this stage of over-abstraction and pursuing a "perfect" design. Perhaps it does plague many older programmers, but to me super object oriented programming was a sort of programming puberty. In high school, I would sit down to write a Java program and figure that I would have to construct this grand architecture where each class reused absolutely no code and fit perfectly in an abstraction hierarchy. Of course, I would quickly lose focus of business logic and write a gazillion SomethingSomethingRepresentation classes and get nowhere. It really hit me when I realized I had a file named Null.java :)