# from A. Pagaltzis
# on Monday 29 October 2007 15:25:
>* Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-29 23:15]:
>> Best is the enemy of the good.
No. "Best" is what "the good" should aim to be. If "best" is better
than "good", why choose the worst of the two?
>And next time this will be handy, it will also be too big a
>change vs. an incremental suboptimal solution, and the overnext
>time as well, and ever on.
Yep. What we usually end up with when someone says "the perfect should
not stand in the way of the good" is "almost-works standing in the way
of good-enough" or, as with the toolchain:
"forever-backwards-compatible-with-halfway-almost-ok."
--Eric
--
Chicken farmer's observation: Clunk is the past tense of cluck.
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