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2021

PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its

Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions.

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YAGNI exceptions (via) Luke Plant provides his collection of things that you probably ARE going to need in a project, where adding them later is painful enough that it’s worth the up-front investment. I really like these as a concept, and I’m coining the term PAGNI—for Probably Are Gonna Need It—to describe them.

# 1st July 2021, 6:30 pm / lukeplant, software-engineering, yagni, pagni

2012

Which core programming principles apply to all languages?

YAGNI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You...

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2004

Defending YAGNI. I’ve been learning to say YAGNI recently.

# 1st March 2004, 4:24 pm / yagni

2003

YAGNI and DRY

Two acronyms that have been seeing a lot of action at work recently are YAGNI and DRY. They’re great principles to go by in any case, but in a pair programming environment they take on a whole new level of utility.

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