Sadly a lot of people have a hard time understanding nuance and middle-grounds. In programming or in anything else. If your code is to be thrown away in one we

Sadly a lot of people have a hard time understanding nuance and middle-grounds. In programming or in anything else. If your code is to be thrown away in one week, why make it perfect? If you have to maintain it for years, why make it a pile of shit? Funnily enough you can't often predict the lifetime of code.