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Re: Refactoring in a large code base

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Refactoring in a large code base
Date 2016-01-22 22:19 +1100
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> The knowhow, vision and skill is apparently very rare. On the product
> management side, we have the famous case of Steve Jobs, who simply told
> the engineers to go back to the drawing boards when he didn't like the
> user experience. Most others would have simply surrendered to the
> mediocre designs and shipped the product.
>
> We need similar code sanity management. Developers are given much too
> much power to mess up the source code. That's why "legacy" is considered
> a four-letter word among developers.

So what do you do with a huge program? Do you send it back to the
developers and say "Do this is less lines of code"?

CPython is a large and complex program. How do you propose doing it "right"?

ChrisA

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importing: what does "from" do? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 14:20 +0000
  Re: importing: what does "from" do? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 07:52 -0700
    Re: importing: what does "from" do? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 15:12 +0000
      Re: importing: what does "from" do? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 08:59 -0700
        Re: importing: what does "from" do? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 16:30 +0000
          Re: importing: what does "from" do? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 16:41 +0000
      Re: importing: what does "from" do? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-22 03:22 +1100
  Re: importing: what does "from" do? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2016-01-21 15:31 +0000
    Re: importing: what does "from" do? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 15:37 +0000
      Re: importing: what does "from" do? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2016-01-21 15:44 +0000
        Re: importing: what does "from" do? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 15:46 +0000
          Re: importing: what does "from" do? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2016-01-21 15:59 +0000
        Re: importing: what does "from" do? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 15:53 +0000
          Re: importing: what does "from" do? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-22 03:28 +1100
  Re: importing: what does "from" do? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 23:03 -0800
    Refactoring in a large code base (was: importing: what does "from" do?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-22 18:54 +1100
      Re: Refactoring in a large code base Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 10:29 +0200
        Re: Refactoring in a large code base Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 01:21 -0800
          Re: Refactoring in a large code base Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 12:19 +0200
            Re: Refactoring in a large code base Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 22:19 +1100
              Re: Refactoring in a large code base Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 13:54 +0200
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 23:28 +1100
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 15:00 +0200
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 00:26 +1100
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 15:48 +0200
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 01:09 +1100
              Re: Refactoring in a large code base Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 04:04 -0800
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 14:21 +0200
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Thomas Mellman <tmellman@web.de> - 2016-01-22 12:27 +0000
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 23:34 +1100
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 05:30 -0800
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 15:43 +0200
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 05:58 -0800
                Re: Refactoring in a large code base Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 01:08 +1100
            Re: Refactoring in a large code base "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 11:45 +0000

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