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Another quite common software engineering situation like the comic is when working with a codebase that has been rushed to market without organizing and modeling its underlying concepts well: “spaghetti code”. At first one may think they can enter the software and simply patch a fix, but past similar patches have made the parts needlessly intertwined and baked any heuristics in in an unmaintainable way. | Another quite common software engineering situation like the comic is when working with a codebase that has been rushed to market without organizing and modeling its underlying concepts well: “spaghetti code”. At first one may think they can enter the software and simply patch a fix, but past similar patches have made the parts needlessly intertwined and baked any heuristics in in an unmaintainable way. | ||
− | The joke regarding “actual progress” is both sarcastic and possibly referring to how the most progress is made on a problem when | + | The joke regarding “actual progress” is both sarcastic and possibly referring to how the most progress is made on a problem when it’s general structure and underpinnings are addressed directly: when it is better understood and its root causes engaged. This appears ironic when it means breaking apart the solution to unusability before rebuilding a better one, which is usually what happens here; this is called refactoring and is analogous to taking everything off the shelves of a slightly-messy room, making it very messy, before putting everything back in a new mess-free organization. In both situations if your new solution has a crucial mistake you end up with a much worse situation. |
The title is similar to [[1906: Making Progress]] which shares a similar structure of "I Started... But now, After..." but ends up with problems listed in a spreadsheet rather than more confusion. | The title is similar to [[1906: Making Progress]] which shares a similar structure of "I Started... But now, After..." but ends up with problems listed in a spreadsheet rather than more confusion. |