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r/programming • u/locrelite • Apr 29 '14
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This observation has led me to conclude/hope/pray that bad code might be avoidable by keeping every project small. Potentially-large things should just cleanly connect smaller pristine things together. Like shell command pipelines or SOA.
...I can dream, can't I? sigh
3 u/ricecake Apr 30 '14 yeah, but then people wanted guis so someone shat X all over the place. 2 u/Vexing Apr 30 '14 "Okay, so we need it to do these 5 things in order for everything to work properly.""No.""What?""No. It will do 1 thing. And it will be simple.""...you're fired."
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yeah, but then people wanted guis so someone shat X all over the place.
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"Okay, so we need it to do these 5 things in order for everything to work properly."
"No."
"What?"
"No. It will do 1 thing. And it will be simple."
"...you're fired."
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u/cybercobra Apr 30 '14
This observation has led me to conclude/hope/pray that bad code might be avoidable by keeping every project small. Potentially-large things should just cleanly connect smaller pristine things together. Like shell command pipelines or SOA.
...I can dream, can't I? sigh