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Size Is the Enemy (2007) (codinghorror.com)
2 points by EndXA 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



No. Size is not the enemy. Illegibility is the enemy. Every large code base that any of us have ever actually seen has been illegible, but that does not prove that it must be so. A code base of any size can be made legible by managing its complexity. This is one of the things that refactoring is supposed to do.




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