RE: Good, Fast, Cheap: pick the last two or get out!

When a job is done well, it does not need to be done again. I think that really says it all, and it's true. That's sadly not how reality is very often. And most of us live in it.

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RE: RE: Good, Fast, Cheap: pick the last two or get out! by extremely (Priest) on Sep 18, 2000 at 00:08 UTC
Mow your lawn. =P I'm not trolling here, this is a real point. Things decay systems change, requirements change, hard-drive space vs. memory speed trade-offs change as the market pulls $300 80Gig HD out of thin air, etc etc. Some code is just naturally going to be disposable. Fast and Cheap is just fine there. Good coders know what not to spend time on too. I modules for things that last and 12 line nightmares of 90% punctuation for throw-away. -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]

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RE: RE: Good, Fast, Cheap: pick the last two or get out!
by extremely (Priest) on Sep 18, 2000 at 00:08 UTC

Mow your lawn. =P

I'm not trolling here, this is a real point. Things decay systems change, requirements change, hard-drive space vs. memory speed trade-offs change as the market pulls $300 80Gig HD out of thin air, etc etc.

Some code is just naturally going to be disposable. Fast and Cheap is just fine there. Good coders know what not to spend time on too. I modules for things that last and 12 line nightmares of 90% punctuation for throw-away.

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$you = new YOU;
honk() if $you->love(perl)

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