The question is if your company needs new features (and ROI) quick or slow.
Boilerplate costs alot of money, both in time to read and time to write and time to debug and time to compile. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Michael Neale <[email protected]>wrote: > > No you are not - you are unfortunately perfectly sane and right to > question this crazyness. I say unfortunately as you probably have > overenthusastic colleagues that will drive your project into the > weeds. > > Good luck ! > > On Jul 29, 6:31 pm, Mwanji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 29, 4:52 am, Michael Neale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > That sounds like madness - lots of busy work "just in case" you need > > > it. > > > > Unfortunately, this is only one case of "what if" thinking leading to > > accidental complexity... > > > > > You need YAGNI more then ever. As a bonus - with friendly refactoring > > > tools and static typing it isn't impossible to fit things in as > > > needed, and refactor things as needed. > > > > I'm happy to see I'm not totally out to lunch on this. > > > > Moandji > > > -- Viktor Klang Rogue Scala-head Blog: klangism.blogspot.com Twttr: viktorklang --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
