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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <12267@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Mar 90 03:43:13 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.234217.23251@aucs.uucp> <732@sppy00.UUCP> <25eb63c7.6a42@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <12533@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12533@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>In article <25eb63c7.6a42@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>>If a program is worth >writing it is worth writing well.  
>Have you never heard of a one-time program?

Even so-called "throw-away" programs are worth writing well.
That doesn't mean you have to code them portably, or document
them for future maintainers, etc.

A lot of people seem to think that a job can be done sloppily
faster than doing it carefully.  This is often not true.