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Martin on Bad Design

March 29th, 2006 | In Quotes | Comments Off

When a single change to a program results in a cascade of changes to dependent modules, that program exhibits the undesirable attributes that we have come to associate with “bad” design. The program becomes fragile, rigid, unpredictable and unreusable.
–Robert C. Martin
discussing The Open-Closed Principle

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