Judicious Use of Shitty Code

Re:Judicious Use of Shitty Code by modarts on Sunday July 05, 2015 @02:01PM (#9834295)

Seems like a lot of justification for being sloppy

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Re:Judicious Use of Shitty Code by mnort9 on Sunday July 05, 2015 @02:29PM (#9834416)

Yea I agree. It's not that much more effort to clean things up and it will save you time later.

Not sure why the author thinks writing clean code is some form of premature optimization.

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Re:Judicious Use of Shitty Code by wallstop on Sunday July 05, 2015 @06:39PM (#9835372)

Agreed, although other arguments could be made.

There's the key phrase

> I haven’t updated that app in years

Arguably, the most important place for clean code is everywhere, but the largest use-case for it is in projects that are expected to live, or in places that the code is seen / used by people who are not the original developer(s).

If your goal is to "ship it and forget it", great. Do whatever you need. Outsource it to some other country if it's cheaper, who cares? You're not going to be maintaining it anyway. Does this make something good? No. Is it excusable? Maybe.

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