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  • Because "Refactoring" is simply rejiggering the internals of a program in order to make it clearer to the programmer - which doesn't sound terribly interesting.

    It's The New Clue Reviews, Comin' Right At You 2006

  • Unlike the memorable pattern names from that other luminous book Design Patterns (1995) – Singleton, Observer, Visitor, etc. – the anti-pattern names in Refactoring sometimes degenerate into the ludicrous: Feature Envy, Inappropriate Intimacy, Primitive Obsession, Speculative Generality, ...

    Better Names for Martin Fowler's "Refactoring Smells" Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • Unlike the memorable pattern names from that other luminous book Design Patterns (1995) – Singleton, Observer, Visitor, etc. – the anti-pattern names in Refactoring sometimes degenerate into the ludicrous: Feature Envy, Inappropriate Intimacy, Primitive Obsession, Speculative Generality, ...

    Archive 2007-01-01 Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • (except maybe "Refactoring" by Fowler) are also too large / heavy to be conveniently read in economy class.

    Planet GNOME 2009

  • The CIA liaison on the project was identified in e-mail exchanges and testimony as “Skip McCormick,” who co-authored a 1998 book, “AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis.”

    CIA mum on lawsuit alleging drone targeting errors Jeff Stein 2010

  • Refactoring Towards Reuse was by far the most broad and complicated requirement/idea in the set - I thought.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009

  • Refactoring of many existing services, for improved speed/usability

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  • Refactoring of many existing services, for improved speed/usability

    February « 2009 « everything e-diotic 2009

  • Refactoring Towards Reuse was by far the most broad and complicated requirement/idea in the set - I thought.

    Refactoring in Scala Jack Cough 2009

  • Jack Cough on Software: Refactoring in Scala skip to main

    Refactoring in Scala Jack Cough 2009

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