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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2016-04-24 14:30:31 -0500
committerRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2016-04-24 14:30:31 -0500
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@@ -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>
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