(2005-10-28) Yegge Ruby Refactoring Transformation

Steve Yegge on transformation

At what point did automated Refactoring tools become the focus? The book’s original focus was about design, with tools for recovery. Now the focus is all on recovery, and specifically on the automatable subset of recovery techniques.

Ah, those automated refactorings. Such programming power

It must feel like piloting an earth-mover: a John Deere, a Komatsu, a Caterpillar

How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts?

*I’ll tell you how:

Ruby is a butterfly