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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2016-04-24 14:30:31 -0500 |
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| committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2016-04-24 14:30:31 -0500 |
| commit | 25a2395e2698aebd53ad3bc4d9143cd817d8332f (patch) | |
| tree | 48856b7790561f4e5e3cb43f8c25ebf8f5fc1987 /www/cleanup.html | |
| parent | 675b5dc24069743892e7bc457793dabb6c978e7f (diff) | |
| download | toybox-25a2395e2698aebd53ad3bc4d9143cd817d8332f.tar.gz | |
Add "infrastructure in search of a user" to cleanup.html.
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diff --git a/www/cleanup.html b/www/cleanup.html index 7c599e09..801dfb80 100644 --- a/www/cleanup.html +++ b/www/cleanup.html @@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ This means the pages can be shared between instances.)</li> sight does not really help readability."</a> - <a href=http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.1/00299.html>Pavel Machek</a></li> +<li>"Infrastructure in search of a user" is a bad thing, so don't put code +in lib/ that doesn't already have at least two users. Don't preemptively +factor stuff out, it's easy enough to rewrite it uin future if it needs +to change. The "extreme programming" fad called this "You Ain't Gonna +Need It" (while inexplicably screaming at cans of Mountain Dew, back in the +90's). Here's <a href=https://lwn.net/Articles/683745/>Linus Torvalds' take</a>.</li> </ul> <hr> |