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Agreed. Plus: Sometimes practicality has to win out over idealism We're engineering software, not writing constitutions. Practicality always comes first IMHO

• einpoklum 5y ago
  > Practicality always comes first ... famous first words of many people who engineer yet another piece of software which later needs to be rewritten, since they / their company could not be bothered to write a decent library. :-(
  • flqn 5y ago
    Pragmatism of decision is orthogonal to quality of execution :>
    • einpoklum 5y ago
      Not when the decision is to implement something of inherently low quality, but which seems locally expedient.