Steve Jenson's blog

Private Data Considered Harmful

Private Data Considered Harmful

Private Data Considered Harmful People can't make good abstractions for anybody but themselves. Let me see your data. Emacs is a great example of this. 20+ years of developement, tons of real world use. A complete mess. Just like a fair amount of real systems development going on out there. Let me see your data. If you change it on me; that's cool. I have regression tests.

# — 01 May, 2004