Colleges normally stress perfect code against some theoretical metric. Real-world work stresses getting stuff done. And in this case parts of the code can also

Colleges normally stress perfect code against some theoretical metric. Real-world work stresses getting stuff done. And in this case parts of the code can also take a life of their own. Ideally both ideologies meet somewhere in between and you get code that works and is maintainable. But sometimes you can get bad code that is shipped... or an unhealthy obsession with polished code that never ships. One is infuriating, the other makes businesses slowly unfeasible.