Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself Into a Corner

by Chris Hanson and Gerald Jay Sussman

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. The authors describe techniques they have found effective--over their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262045494
• ISBN13: 9780262045490
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"