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There seems to be a lot of overlap between the Clean Coders and the Neo Coders [0]. I wish we could get rid of both.

[0] People who strive for "The One" architecture that will allow any change no matter what. Seriously, abstraction out the wazoo!

Honestly. If you're getting data from a bar code scanner and you think, "we should handle the case where we get data from a hot air balloon!" because ... what if?, you should retire.



I like to say "the machine that does everything, does nothing".




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