Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of Erlang, seems to agree on your last point. He said: "Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really ha

Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of Erlang, seems to agree on your last point. He said: "Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast." I think "make it right" is often a moving target in software development (depending on how you're looking at it).