5. Refactoring
© Jennifer M. Kohnke
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
—Kevin Kelly, in Wired
This chapter is about human attention, about paying attention to what you are doing and making sure that you are doing your best. It is about the difference between getting something to work and getting something right. It is about the value we place in the structure of our code.
In Refactoring, his classic book, Martin Fowler defines refactoring as “the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure.”1 But why would ...
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