Perl had a "write one to throw away" philosophy that you should write a quick and dirty prototype to understand the business problem and then you could design t

Perl had a "write one to throw away" philosophy that you should write a quick and dirty prototype to understand the business problem and then you could design the full thing with an actual understanding for how things work. Stuff was still complex back then, but probably a lot simpler. I doubt it's possible for a project past a certain size.