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Ferocious, guzzling black holes of the software universe, super-massive classes result from run-away positive feedback: the class grows so huge that programmers fear any attempt at refactoring and instead simply dump more functionality into it, thereby making it even more likely that the next programmer will also pale before the terrifying refactoring and jettison yet […]