January 2012
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False Beliefs in Software Engineering
I must write my code to be as flexible and extensible as possible. This line of thinking is often instilled in students by professors: Don’t just solve the problem you’re trying to solve. Generalize and solve the class of problems it belongs to. The goal is to require as little change to your code as possible to enhance it in the future and to make code as re-usable as possible. This...