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Aug 3, 2011 at 12:35 vote accept Pete
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Aug 2, 2011 at 16:15 comment added kevin cline @Magnus - yes, designing a library in a some languages, planning for backward binary compatibility, is tricky. One is forced to write all sorts of currently unneeded code to allow for future extension. This may be reasonable for languages that compile to the metal. It's silly for languages that compile to a virtual machine.
Aug 1, 2011 at 14:38 comment added Magnus Wolffelt @kevin cline that's awesome unless you are designing a publicly available library with an API that needs to conform to previous behaviour and interfaces.
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Jul 29, 2011 at 4:53 comment added kevin cline Good answer, but extreme programmers don't 'put in abstractions where we expect things to change'. We put in abstractions where things are changing, to DRY up the code.
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