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Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible Ones

thinkingsideways.net Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible Ones

This blog post explains why you should strive to keep your code simple. It explains what ‘simple’ means in this context and includes a real life code example.

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To wrap up: You should always strife for the least amount of flexibility

There should be a reasonable amount of flexibility. In the example you can reduce flexibility by having fruitStore.stockLime and fruitStore.stockLemon instead of fruitStore.stockFruit but I think we all agree that it shouldn't be that inflexible.