Chapter 3. Refactoring in small steps
The most powerful designs are always the result of a continuous process of simplification and refinement.
Kevin Mullet, Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques
In the previous chapter, we began implementing a template engine using test-driven development, starting from basically nothing and ending up with a rather useful chunk of code. In fact, we’ve gotten this far with almost laughably little code. If you look at our Template class, it’s a lot smaller than I suppose most would’ve guessed based on years of experience in waterfall-style, big-design-up-front development. Or maybe it’s just me. Perhaps others have indeed come up with small and simple solutions while I devised fancy ...
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