I think this is especially relevant when discussing things like this story from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513237 https://news.ycombinator.c

I think this is especially relevant when discussing things like this story from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513237 A competent programmer realizes that there's a reason for 'spaghetti code' and seemingly inefficient classes/methods/architectures—the real world (read: production) is rarely as pure as the programmer's conceptualized structures, and compromises lead to large code bases full of warts. The key, I think, is to turn those warts into something beautiful. It can be done.