My Summary:
1. Duct tape programmers are pragmatic. They know that shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it. :-)
2. It’s great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third time it’ll actually be pretty. But that’s not the point—you’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products.
3. "One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that's even slightly complicated is going to doom your project."
4. If there’s no unit test the customer isn’t going to complain about that.
5. One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project.
6. Duct tape programmers have to have a lot of talent to pull off this shtick. They have to be good enough programmers to ship code, and we’ll forgive them if they never write a unit test, or if they xor the “next” and “prev” pointers of their linked list into a single DWORD to save 32 bits, because they’re pretty enough, and smart enough, to pull it off.
Its not necessary to apply everything mentioned in the article in letter and spirit. But you get the point.
2. It’s great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third time it’ll actually be pretty. But that’s not the point—you’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products.
3. "One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that's even slightly complicated is going to doom your project."
4. If there’s no unit test the customer isn’t going to complain about that.
5. One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project.
6. Duct tape programmers have to have a lot of talent to pull off this shtick. They have to be good enough programmers to ship code, and we’ll forgive them if they never write a unit test, or if they xor the “next” and “prev” pointers of their linked list into a single DWORD to save 32 bits, because they’re pretty enough, and smart enough, to pull it off.
Its not necessary to apply everything mentioned in the article in letter and spirit. But you get the point.
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