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GeneralRefactoring woes Pin
honey the codewitch14-May-21 8:30
mvahoney the codewitch14-May-21 8:30 
I thought "hey, I don't have a solid design on the generic interface for my video displays because I haven't a clue what all the differences between them are, so I'll write two or three, and then flesh out my general/abstract design based on those, and then backport/refactor the two or three drivers to use the new generalized design"

It seemed like a solid plan. Solid enough that faced with a similar, or even the same problem, I'd still consider this approach.

But whoa... I've quickly turned things into spaghetti and had to untangle the mess and try again.

Now I'm at the point where the coding is like a protracted game of chess. I make a move, take a break, go think about something else. Come back, make another move, go do something else for half the day.

At this rate, it will take me a week to refactor. Part of it is because generic programming doesn't always lend itself to refactoring very easily. There are a million reasons for this, some of which I'm (re)discovering.

I still will use GP. But ZOMG what a mess I made. It's bad enough that I want to blame it on someone else. Laugh | :laugh:

I think maybe when I'm done I'll write an article about some of the ways GP can bite you.
Real programmers use butterflies

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