Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > It's also been a pleasure to witness the surprisingly successful > marriage of two different coding styles: Bastien's damn-the-torpedoes > patch-the-SOB-and-get-it-out-the-door approach, matched with Nicolas' > return to first principles: structure and cleanliness. I'm quite > convinced that the two approaches have been equally essential to Org > mode's current success (and advance apologies for any perceived > mischaracterizations!).
Yeah. Let me quote Jamie Zawinski's interview from "Coders at work": Zawinski: [...] It's great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third time it'll actually be pretty. But that's not the point---you're not here to write code, you're here to ship products. Seibel: Folks engaged in overengineering usually say, "Well, once I've got this framework in place everything will be easy after that. So I'll actually save time by doing this. Zawinski: That is always the theory. Seibel: And there are times when that theory is true, when someone has good sense and the framework isn't too elaborate, and it does save time. I actually agree with both points of view, especially with the last sentence. And it's easy to play jwz when you can trust someone for playing the other role :) -- Bastien
