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		hippich on Nov 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop writing good code; Start writing good softwar... If your API is not flexible enough and require to write ad-hoc code - it is broken and require refactoring. I know this is not lines up with "customer want it now and do not care", but code do not magically become less broken because of it.

alexobenauer on Nov 19, 2011 [–]

API of objects, not public-facing API. The internal API objects had to be re-written in a new language.

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