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5 years: Broken Window

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by akshat • 16 years ago

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hga• 16 years ago

Oh, yes! Applying the Broken Windows theory of criminology and social order to code (not to be confused with Bastiat's economic broken window fallacy).

A bit like the AntiPatterns thesis that good systems will have good patterns and bad have bad, and little mixing.

vena• 16 years ago

i suppose the author recently read The Pragmatic Programmer?

as with the same argument presented in that book, i have a little trouble with this since i've been under the impression the broken windows hypothesis was discredited...

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