The *ART* of Computer Programming

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <12533 at nigel.udel.EDU> new at udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>In article <25eb63c7.6a42 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>>If a program is worth >writing it is worth writing well.  
>Have you never heard of a one-time program?

Even so-called "throw-away" programs are worth writing well.
That doesn't mean you have to code them portably, or document
them for future maintainers, etc.

A lot of people seem to think that a job can be done sloppily
faster than doing it carefully.  This is often not true.