Software Design for Flexibility

Title

Software Design for Flexibility

Publisher

MIT Press

ISBN

9780262045490

Published

2021-03-09

Language

English

Genre

Software Architecture / Software Patterns

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Author(s)

• Chris Hanson
• Gerald Jay Sussman

Description

Strategies for building large systems that can be easily adapted for new situations with only minor programming modifications. Time pressures encourage programmers to write code that works well for a narrow purpose, with no room to grow. But the best systems are evolvable; they can be adapted for new situations by adding code, rather than changing the existing code.