Software Design: Tidy First?

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¿Por qué no los dos?

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Kent Beck
May 07, 2025
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Pattern: You are choosing between 2 or more options & you don’t have the information needed to choose wisely yet.

Transformation: Implement some of them all until one is clearly superior.

I’m running into this right now with a personal project—a server-grade implementation of Smalltalk. Should I implement the virtual machine as a bytecode interpreter or a…

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