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- verb computing To
rewrite existingsource code in order toimprove itsreadability ,reusability orstructure withoutaffecting itsmeaning orbehaviour
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It is not yet clear whether scientists will attempt to package or refactor more traditional applications (which require high bandwidth, closely-coupled communications in many important domains) in ways that are well-suited for the cloud infrastructure, or whether cloud infrastructure providers will offer options that provide hardware suited for them.
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I isolated components for reusability where I found it useful – which is part of a long term plan to refactor a large part of the code base at work.
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I isolated components for reusability where I found it useful – which is part of a long term plan to refactor a large part of the code base at work.
everything e-diotic 2010
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I isolated components for reusability where I found it useful – which is part of a long term plan to refactor a large part of the code base at work.
Am I the only hybrid Perl programmer? « everything e-diotic 2010
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I isolated components for reusability where I found it useful – which is part of a long term plan to refactor a large part of the code base at work.
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If you skip refactorings in Ruby because they are hard, your code becomes harder and harder to refactor.
Scala over Ruby - My Debate Ends Jack Cough 2009
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I can refactor so easily in Scala with huge confidence and I can't do that in Ruby at all.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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If you skip refactorings in Ruby because they are hard, your code becomes harder and harder to refactor.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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Now, they managed through hard work to refactor the SAME error into ALL of their products.
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I can refactor so easily in Scala with huge confidence and I can't do that in Ruby at all.
Scala over Ruby - My Debate Ends Jack Cough 2009
waylonflinn commented on the word refactor
To change the internal structure of a body of source code without modifying it's external behavior.
June 9, 2009