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Overengineering

I've spent several years reading other people's Perl code
My conclusion is the most of it is horribly overwritten
- It has too many features
- There's too much code even for the features that are present
A lot of the Extreme Programming philosophy is contestible
But I think their primary maxim will live for a long time:

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

In getstore, I failed to do this
- I paid the cost for a feature with no benefit
- Fortunately the cost was minimal in this case

        my $file = shift;
        unless (defined $file) {

# In ticker the cost was not so minimal