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The risks of stopping too soon

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Good software design is never easy, but stopping too soon makes the job more difficult.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 6
June 2011
134 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1953122
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Published: 01 June 2011
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