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jplindstrom++, best post on the thread IMO.

He points out exactly the points my signature is meant to put in one short sentence. Any piece of software tends to grow if it does something useful; if you don't do it the right way right off the bat, you end up with a big ball of mud full of kludges and quick hacks that you'll basically have to rewrite from scratch, or spend a long time labourously refactoring.

People sure are free to stray from the beaten path once they understand why so many people have walked it. Once you can tell exactly when and how your homegrown CGI or XML parser will break, you are free to write one when you think CGI or XML::* is overkill. But that's not something you will be able to do before you have acquired a fair degree of proficience in both the language as well as the specific problem domain.

And by definition, anyone who comes to the monastery with questions about those isn't.

Makeshifts last the longest.


In reply to Re: Simplicity vs. Doing It Right by Aristotle
in thread Simplicity vs. Doing It Right by dws

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