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Software gardening manifesto

May 17, 2015 - 1 minute read - Comments - agriculturegardeningmanifesto

A friend sent this Software Gardening Manifesto to me.

This is related to the idea of growing software vs building it, greatly exemplified by the Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests book (category here).

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