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Refactoring: You Keep Using that Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

“Refactoring,” as a term, is rapidly becoming meaningless. The final nail in the coffin, for me, was this morning when I heard a sales guy say:

I need to refactor the pipeline in Salesforce—it’s got a bit messy and needs tidying up.

When a term has become so generic that sales guys start (mis-)using it, it’s lost all value.

He’s not alone. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard software eng

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	Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel 3.82 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code 3.50 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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