Software Design: Tidy First?

Copy From a Simpler Language

Maybe a way to get the genie out of the tar pit

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Kent Beck
May 31, 2025
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I’ll write a more thorough version of this for public consumption, but given the pace of change around augmented coding I wanted to share a technique I may have found. That is, I found the technique, but I’m not sure how widely applicable it is. I hope you’ll help me find out.

Here’s the problem: you’re solving a complex problem in a complex language. Th…

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