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Martin on Bad Design

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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