{"id":53,"date":"2009-03-19T22:34:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andypalmer.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-05-22T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T13:06:09","slug":"code-should-start-out-messy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/2009\/03\/code-should-start-out-messy\/","title":{"rendered":"Code should start out messy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today <a href=\"http:\/\/antonymarcano.com\">Antony<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AntonyMarcano\/statuses\/1353718961\">said on Twitter<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;stop apologising if your code starts out messy&#8230; it&#8217;s how it ends up that counts&#8230;. you can&#8217;t make an omelette without breaking some eggs&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andypalmer\/status\/1353806284\">I replied:<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Code _should_ start out messy. Finding the right places for things is harder when they&#8217;re already neatly in the wrong place&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you have a preconceived idea of where your code should go, you will put it there by default. Antony told me an experience he had with this when he was untangling dependencies in <a href=\"http:\/\/jnarrate.org\">jnarrate<\/a>. By moving everything into a single package, then repackaging based on affinity, a much better package structure revealed itself.<\/p>\n<p>At home, I would really like to re-organise my kitchen so that the pans are closer to the cooker. It makes sense from an ergonomics point of view. However, they already have a home. In order to rearrange the pans, I would have to empty the existing cupboard and the destination cupboard. It&#8217;s less work for me to put the pans back in their existing space, but it bothers me whenever I think of it. I really should fix that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today Antony said on Twitter: &#8220;stop apologising if your code starts out messy&#8230; it&#8217;s how it ends up that counts&#8230;. you can&#8217;t make an omelette without breaking some eggs&#8221; I replied: &#8220;Code _should_ start out messy. Finding the right places for things is harder when they&#8217;re already neatly in the wrong place&#8221; If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,19,17,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}