Big Ball of Mud

[Rodney Degracia]

I was going over some C++ throw-away code I wrote a few years ago and
reviewing the code brought to mind an interesting essay, written in
1999, that discusses software development.

http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#Abstract

Does the Ruby language features solve some of the issues brought up in
the essay?

What do you think of the essay, in regards to current software
development practice?

R

[caike]

Hey, Rodney.

Great article!

I think the features themselves don't solve the issues, but allow the creation of tools that try to help you track down code smells. Software will naturally decay as new features are added or existing features are changed and I think that the key to keeping the BBOM from happening is constant refactoring. 

I'm also a little skeptical about fighting BBOM with reconstruction and Uncle Bob has a nice blog post about why that would not be a good choice.

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