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Is there another book you'd recommend - more recent than SICP - for how to avoid programming yourself into a corner?



I don't know about books, but I think the best approach is functional programming in a dynamic language. That could be because I'm currently an Elixir fanboy, but I think Lisps, especially Scheme or Clojure, or a functional-restricted approach in JavaScript could do it as well. I agree with parent comment that it's better to keep things as simple as possible and make the changes when necessary vs. building in all the flexibility in the beginning.




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