Talk:You ain't gonna need it

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Added little explanation of the yagni --Dom 03:53, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Just my two cents: some arguments for YAGNI.

  • Nothing is more of a pain than chasing bugs through code that isn't even executing - lots of dead ends!
  • It keeps the cognitive overhead down when looking at strange code.
  • Dead code is not part of the integration-testing loop, so in a test-driven process, it's not valid code. It also tends to fall behind requirements.
  • Finally, YAGNI keeps the cognitive overhead down when looking at the code. It self-documents because by it's very existence, it declares what the software actually does.

Lindsay Kay

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