Re^2: My greatest coding sin is:

the second time around you've a clearer picture of what you need to achieve.

Undoubtedly. There's also the added benefit that you are coding to the spec as it stands now rather than to a bunch of feature-creeping incremental changes.

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Re^3: My greatest coding sin is: by Ratazong (Monsignor) on Jan 06, 2016 at 09:52 UTC
Indeed. Which reminds me of one of my all-time-favourite software-development related quotes: Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward Berard)	[reply]
Re^4: My greatest coding sin is: by Pope-O-Matik (Pilgrim) on Jan 10, 2016 at 14:38 UTC
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Oh, Let it Go...	[reply]