Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design
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Do You Have to Touch Five Modules Every Time?
Sometimes you have to touch five modules in order to get this new functionality. That's the kind of thing where, if i saw that, i would say, suppose, suppose i made the rule, we simply can't do this. What would happen? Would i have to simply shut the system down? Or could i find some other way that gets around this problem? Ye, i more of a rip the bandate off kind of person, but i want to constantly expose these things and get people thinking about them.
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