Oh FFS. Writing code is like writing natural language. It's editing that counts. Not the first draft. Whether or not you should throw out your first draft is

Oh FFS. Writing code is like writing natural language. It's editing that counts. Not the first draft. Whether or not you should throw out your first draft is in proportion to its value at getting you to the final draft. Not some axiom you thought of for a specific use-case and specific code base