Rewriting the Spreadsheet Interface

I have begin rewriting the spreadsheet interface. It is very nice to look at some of the old code and say “what the hell is this, that’s stupid” and then make it better. I can only imagine that in the next time I do it I will be looking at the code I am writing now and say the same thing. But sometimes that is just what needs to happen, throw out all the old code and start again from scratch (or almost scratch). After learning about the two statements “loose coupling and high cohesion” I find that loose coupling, making each function not rely on global variables or non argument states and splitting up functions, is much more important when you go back to try to re-factor the code.

 

- Asher Glick

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