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it's crazy how we keep going through all those injunctions (religions) about software, they all look amazing on paper, feel like common sense and yet 50 years in, software is garbage 90% of the time

yet, we keep bringing this stuff up like it's some sort of genius insight / silver bullet



I think it's because 90% of the garbage is being written by people that don't read or write articles like this one.


I don't think it's the case, because all those schools of thought (your DRY, your SOLID, your DDD, etc) all have opposite schools of thought rife with other similarly popular mantras

the problems in engineering rarely stem from the lack of principles and have way more to do with mismanaged projects, arbitrary deadlines, shifting priorities, unreliable sources of data, misunderstood business logic and all those fancy acronyms, all the SCRUM and agile in the world will never make up for all that


That's really not been my experience when reviewing code. Bad code I've seen has been due to misusing language features, not knowing the principles in these articles, or misunderstanding the principles or blanket applying them to everything.

For example, abstracting every piece of similar code to make it "DRY" because they don't understand that it's about concepts not code.




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