TITLE: What He Said
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 29, 2005  6:27 PM
DESC: The incomparable feel of purpose-driven refacoring!
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Every once in a while, someone says something that just
makes me say, "Oh, yeah" -- even if I've
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2004-08.html#e2004-08-02T08_27_48.htm">
   already written a similar piece</A>
myself.  From The Fishbowl:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
<A HREF="http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2005/09/27/programming_is">
   Programming is...</A>

<P> Programming is looking at a feature request in the
morning, thinking, "I can do that in one line of code",
and then six hours later having refactored the rest of
the codebase sufficiently that you can implement the
feature...

<P> ...in one line of code.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

That makes a nice complement to the quote from Jason
Marshall and the epigram from Brian Foote quoted in
my earlier post.  It may have to go on to my office
door.
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