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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:26:49 +0000 (UTC)
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Kevin Cline <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote:
 
: The efficacy of much pre-code activity is debatable.  Many
: organizations have had great success with more agile methods of
: minimal up-front design followed by test-driven development and
: continuous refactoring.

Yes and even some tricks can be helpful to get something going.
But how can "refactoring" be done well without quite some thinking
and planning, that is without something that happens before coding?
Isn't "refactoring" sometimes a redesign of the modular structure of
some software? I wouldn't call this activity "coding".


-- Georg