Talk:Code refactoring: Difference between revisions

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I have read this article and it makes me so depressed to observe the naivity of the programmers who have written it and many others who have subsequently commented about it without knowledgeable criticism.

It is heavily OOP oriented and mired in [[Obfuscation|obfuscation ]] and completely unsupported claims. The history section is mostly bunkem - ludicrous comments such as "In the past refactoring was avoided in development processes" displays an ignorance born of the current age. The statement "Although refactoring code has been done informally for years" demonstrates that the writer is seemingly aware that throughout software history factoringrefactoring has been performed - but then goes on to cite various papers from the quite "recent" past (1990's onwards). Programming has been taking place since the advent of computers (at least 40 years before then) and so has "refactoring" (it's just that no-one called it that until recently - Doh!). During my 40 years, I have never heard of the term "code smell" used but have seen its consequences.

In the overview section the statement "...If at any point a test fails, you undo your last small change and try again in a different way" displays how poor the training of programmers is today. What you should '''actually''' do is find out WHY something fails, not just try a different way. Sadly, however, I have discovered that this is precisely how many of this current generation of programmers "get by".