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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re:  questions from using lint
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 14:31:59 EDT
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> Yes, I know you said "sometimes re-doing", but that is often impossible,
> under the press of circumstance.

The press of circumstance must be firmly resisted if it's going to lead to
shoddy work.  I agree that there is considerable incentive to get things
close enough to correct that major revision at the last minute isn't needed.

> ... Beyond a certain minimum size, design/code/debug is faster than
> code/debug.

Ah, but is design/code/debug/release/withdraw/revise/really-release faster
than code/debug/try/code/debug/release? :-)  More seriously, I do acknowledge
the need to have some idea of where you're going before you set out to
get there.  And the degree of advance planning needed is indeed a function
of project size.  But getting where you're going and then discovering that
you really want to be somewhere else should be treated as a predictable
part of the development process, not as a rare and surprising exception.
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