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Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob
“Clean Code” has garnered a bit of notoriety despite coining an endearing term we use in coding conversations. This book from 2008 is a compilation of principles and studies that “…
This book from 2008 is a compilation of principles and studies that “Uncle Bob” (a.k.a Robert Martin) had developed in his decades of programming. If he’d made a case for these instance variables needing to exist for something other than this specific return string, I might’ve been on board with this. This unintuitive separation results from Martin treating levels of abstraction so granularly, that the most microscopic of dips rings alarm bells.
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