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Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You – Joel on Software

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When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending…

Rock star developer , News When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending each other spreadsheets, and they realize that there’s a general pattern: sending files. That’s one level of abstraction already. Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also “ send ” requests for web pages. And when you think about it, calling a method on an object is like sending a message to an object! It’s the s

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