<p>If you write code with more code that’s fast now, you’re going to have a hit on your hands. And next year, you’re going to have a giant mess to maintain, and it’s going to slow you down adding features and fixing bugs, and someone’s going to come along and eat your lunch.</p> <p><a href="http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/2005/02/free-programming-tips-are-worth-every.html">Call me Fishmeal</a></p> <p>At one point your code will deteriorate. You feel that the tools you used push you in a certain direction that is not feasible.</p> <p>But creating wholly new tools is hard, get your priorities straight. Sometimes it&#8217;s wiser to</p> <p>&#8230; fsck it, i want the perfect programming language. or at least a better one.+</p> <h1>instance_eval (pass method calls in a block to the instance)</h1> <p>http://hackety.org/2008/10/06/mixingOurWayOutOfInstanceEval.html</p> <p>eg</p> <p><code> "bla".instance_eval do to_s # bla end</code></p> 2008-04-16T15:55:28-07:00 11382 lessons-in-code-maintainability 6052 2009-07-04T03:53:21-07:00 3815