In article <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> wrote: > >Well you know, the thing is that according to Pike & Kernighan in "The >Practice of Programming", your first implementation of a program >should be scrapped and rewritten from scratch, so your approach might >not be that wrong after all.
This observation was originally made in _The Mythical Man-Month_ by Fred Brooks, which ought to be required reading for all programmers. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
