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in thread Design Patterns Considered Harmful
Ah, Extreme Programming. From one of the Extreme Programming FAQs:
What does YAGNI mean?
"You aren't gonna need it," a general refrain when someone suggests building functionality for the system that isn't required by any current user story. For example:
Programmer 1: "It says here we need to save the default number of widgets between sessions. I'd better write a generalized object persistence mechanism."
Programmer 2: "YAGNI. Just write out a one-line text file for now. If we need more later, we'll add it later."
Hey patterns are cool. But most often, YAGNI.
What does YAGNI mean?
"You aren't gonna need it," a general refrain when someone suggests building functionality for the system that isn't required by any current user story. For example:
Programmer 1: "It says here we need to save the default number of widgets between sessions. I'd better write a generalized object persistence mechanism."
Programmer 2: "YAGNI. Just write out a one-line text file for now. If we need more later, we'll add it later."
Hey patterns are cool. But most often, YAGNI.
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