From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T11:42:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Diff of opinion on dynamic stuff

Steven Lumos wrote:
> 
> Rubyists are mostly people who know how not to aim at their foot, and
> are skilled in first-aid just in case.  But what happens when the code
> is delivered and moves into maintenance mode?

My code goes into maintenance mode almost as soon as
I've written 40 lines, i.e., I try to go depth-first
and then flesh out the skeleton as priorities dictate.

This is all done while creating a safety-net, a custom-
application debugger, through test-first development.
(Note: I've never had need of Ruby's debugger.)

The maintenance folks (me initially) are left with
executable, non-lying specifications for how everything
should behave and recipes for building new safety net.

Later,
--
Bil
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