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November 23, 2004

Read this. That pretty much sums up the heirarchy of production code as I've seen it. Too bad there's precious little "level 3" code (or people capable of writing it) out there.

Level 1 also includes overengineered code. Cargo Cult use of design patterns, mixing up classes and objects (in the form of deep object heirarchies where all the subclasses should really just be instances of a class or two), usually acommpanied by lots of UML...

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