Common highways - Running on expressway is fast.

  • Trying to do things out of the way pond.
  • What is a swamp?
    • Difficult to move around
    • Nuance in which the know-how of the move quickly obsolescence and cannot be reused.

The highway itself is a swamp.

  • Documentation is out of date.
  • So the only way to master it is to read the source code.

The highway (the) ground is a swamp.

  • Highways are being built, but the ground has not been consolidated.

    • For example, frameworks that wrap third-party APIs are affected when APIs change.
    • When the earthquake comes, the highway collapses.
  • Parable of the Swamp


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