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On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 15:15:53 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    I *like* to make 'perfect' structuring that will handle anything, but
>    at times there was time pressure to "make it work" and I could not
>    spend days/weeks trying to get it 'just perfect'.

We had a couple of programmers who tried to handle all possible 
eventualities. Typically the eventualities never evidenced or whatever the 
theoretical future does, leaving a very complex piece of code to do the 
task at hand.

Solve tomorrow's problems tomorrow.