From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Always using let* Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:40:05 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87zjdzur3u.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87fvfukmso.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <93faab1c-96bd-4188-9686-3869fc027601@default> <87ppewkbjm.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87oaug8r12.fsf@debian.uxu> <87egvbkbxk.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410907228 14763 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2014 22:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 00:40:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XU1Q4-00062q-4L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41143 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XU1Q3-00052D-PF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:40:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:m9nyxpftilXFpn5HoWkv5A+Xou0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207692 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99965 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof writes: > No, I mean in the development of software. My > experience is that almost always the deadlines are to > tight and there is only regard for delivering as soon > as possible, to keep the run-over as short as > possible. Taking some time to make it easier for > someone else (but also yourself) to maintain the > program later on, would be in my opinion a very wise > investment. > > Something I also often heard (but to be honest less > often, so there is improvement): we never have time > to do it correctly, but we always have time to mend > the bugs. I would think that delivering software with > less bugs (no bugs is impossible) would be more time > efficient. Indeed, deadlines are a joke and they are often setup by people who have no understanding of the work itself. Things get done when they get done. Simple as that. Example: Windows 95 was intended to be ship as "Windows 93" :) > Typing code fast is no problem, writing code fast > could. What is the difference between typing code fast and writing code fast? > To quote Abraham Lincoln: If I had eight hours to > chop down a tree, I would spend six sharpening my > axe. What's wrong with that? What would you do? Chop it down instantly and then sit idle for seven hours? Better bring a book and a deck of cards in that case. -- underground experts united