Now that we have discussed so many design principles, you may feel that it’s time to get a little bit more practical. You just want to finally start creating wonderful packages and share them with your co-workers, or even with the international open source software audience. I definitely think you should do that. Before you do, I want to give you some last words of advice.
Creating Packages Is Hard
In his book,
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
, Robert Glass mentions some interesting “facts” about reusable software components (or “packages”). First of all:
Reuse-in-the-small ...
