A Fairy Tale

“Once upon a time there was a Good Software Engineer whose Customers knew exactly what they wanted.

The Good Software Engineering worked very hard to design the Perfect System that would solve all the Customers’ problems now and for decades.

When the Perfect System was designed, implemented and finally deployed, the Customers were very happy indeed.

The Maintainer of the System had very little to do to keep the Perfect System up and running, and the Customers and the Mainteiner lived happily every after.”

( Demeyer, Ducasse, Nierstrasz, Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, p. xiii )

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