On 12/6/2010 11:25 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
I sure hope that we don't dismiss the reading of such books just because "every experienced programmer knows about refactoring".
I apologize if I gave that impression. I think books like these provide programmers with a head start on techniques and tools that they would otherwise have to spend years gathering from hands-on experience, usually from working with more experienced programmers.
My point was that it is important to keep an open mind, to be able to recognize when they are being applied by people who may not share the same lexicon. The shared terms are important, but they are rarely as ubiquitous as, say, "cantilever" would be amongst civil engineers. This is a different problem.
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