Topic on User talk:DKinzler (WMF)/Software Design Practices

It's hard to know what you're getting at here. Is 'abstract out' a better solution than 'factor out'? Is 'translate' better still? How is 'hide mutability' related to the other bullet points?

No doubt there are many people in the foundation who are comfortable with notation like M, N, K, C, C', X, etc, but it's 25 years since I did any math, and I am not one of those people. I would like to see descriptive variable names instead

Yea, this is all a bit abstract and unconnected. A rough brain dump, really. That section should be moved to a subpage, and nobody should look at it until I flesh it out a bit :)