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Re: [OT] engineering

From Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.perl.misc, comp.programming
Subject Re: [OT] engineering
Date 2013-07-17 15:53 +0100
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Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> 	My point is simple: if the deadline is today, one has to forget
> 	about "science" (be it Wirth's, Borlaug's, or someone's else),
> 	and use whatever "ingredients" available to solve the task at
> 	hand.  Be it a program, or a dinner.

I also wrote a longer reply to this which I shouldn't have posted
(which will continue to be available via servers not processing
cancels) but this is the more interesting part: According to my
experience, writing 'bad' code (for a suitable definition of 'bad')
doesn't take less time than writing 'good' code (for a suitable
definition of 'good') to begin with and 'corners cut in order to be
able to present something superficially suitable to $superior now'
will come back to haunt you, ie, when taking the time necessary for
repairs/ maintenance and the time wasted trying to puzzle out the
meaning of 'the usual thicket' into account, 'bad code' needs a lot
more time overall.

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[OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-15 11:37 +0000
  Re: [OT] engineering Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-16 21:49 +0100
    Re: [OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-17 09:27 +0000
      Re: [OT] engineering Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-17 15:53 +0100
      Re: [OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 10:36 +0000
        Re: [OT] engineering Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> - 2013-07-23 06:43 -0400
      Re: [OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 10:38 +0000
  Re: [OT] engineering Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-07-26 10:09 +0100

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