idioms for abstract base classes

[Remco Gerlich]

zooko at zooko.com <zooko at zooko.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> In fact, I suspect that premature design, such as the mistake described here, is
> the most common error in software engineering (this contradicts the common
> belief that insufficiently farsighted design is the most common problem in
> software engineering).

Yes. I'm only just starting to learn this. I'm one of those people who wants
to make every design completely "clean and general" and therefore never get
anything done (so to speak).

Premature optimization is bad, but premature generalization is the same thing.

-- 
Remco Gerlich