> a giant mud-ball of for-loops, while-loops, variable assignments, and other wonderful side effects. Instead of addressing complexity head-on with abstraction
I very much prefer to work in a codebase of poorly written loops and variable assignments rather than one with poor abstractions.
Poor abstractions can harm way, way more than spaghetti code. Their harm usually spreads out through system.
Imagine this:
* 1 single poorly written function which takes a number of inputs and has an output, but internally it's long and messy.
* A bunch of abstracted entities, which interact throughout the system, but are poorly designed.
The complexity of 1 is isolated to the implementation. There's a nice encapsulation. Removing/Rewriting is easy.
But 2 becomes a complete mess which is not isolated. You'd have to skin it layer by layer. Thats way more scary to me.
I very much prefer to work in a codebase of poorly written loops and variable assignments rather than one with poor abstractions.
Poor abstractions can harm way, way more than spaghetti code. Their harm usually spreads out through system.
Imagine this:
* 1 single poorly written function which takes a number of inputs and has an output, but internally it's long and messy.
* A bunch of abstracted entities, which interact throughout the system, but are poorly designed.
The complexity of 1 is isolated to the implementation. There's a nice encapsulation. Removing/Rewriting is easy.
But 2 becomes a complete mess which is not isolated. You'd have to skin it layer by layer. Thats way more scary to me.