Re: Coding style - a non-issue

From: Lars Brinkhoff (lars.spam@nocrew.org)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 04:30:52 EST

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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
> What is the deep thought in this, it's that if you've time for deep
> planning/design it means that nobody is actually using your software
> and when your cutting edge, well designed implementation will see
> the light, noone is gonna use it because they've already embraced
> something else.

Also known as "Worse is Better":

http://www.ai.mit.edu/docs/articles/good-news/subsection3.2.1.html

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