> a beautifully elegant solution for a class of problem of which there will only ever be a single instance, which can be solved with 1 hour of bad scripting Th

> a beautifully elegant solution for a class of problem of which there will only ever be a single instance, which can be solved with 1 hour of bad scripting This is a stupidly common problem, and one that is hard to fight against. Why would you decline a good / inspiring part of the codebase, coupled with the unsureness that during the lifetime of the software this would come handy.