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> "First make it. Then make it work. Then make it better." That only works when you do simple things, for harder things the "make it better" part usually requ

> "First make it. Then make it work. Then make it better." That only works when you do simple things, for harder things the "make it better" part usually requires a complete rewrite if you didn't properly think things through from the beginning. A better mantra would be "First make it, then make it again, then make the real version".

yahwrong 7y ago
No. Engineering is an iterative process. Even if you're 're-writing' everything, you're still not starting again from scratch, rather you're building off your previous approaches.
valand 7y ago
Few would admit that there is "the real version", though.