[man2525]

Working on legacy codebases better designed than I could have come up with hasn't been much of an improvement for me. There is a certain quality of "habitable" for a codebase that tends to get tossed when people create a tightly abstracted object-oriented design. Peter Norvig and Richard Gabriel in their writings mention organizing software "fractally" from top to bottom, which I haven't really been able to figure out yet, other than it must involve some careful use of repetition. Apparently, it can help create those qualities.