[BangPypers] refactoring

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 15:34 +0530, steve wrote:
> Most good engineering practices get thrown out of the window under
> pressure.

this is the real world. Monkey patching, hacks, repeating the same code
in 10 different places with minor changes - all this and more happens
when the deadline is yesterday and the client is screaming and tearing
out his hair. The other day a developer produced some code in production
which did only half the job. Reason? He did not want to violate the DRY
principle! Customer does not give an rf about DRY - he wants results and
correct results in production. After all the hue and cry dies down, it
makes good sense to go back to the code and slowly remove all the
repetitive parts, make the hacks look good and redo the monkey patching
- if you have time.
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves