<p>Following quotes from an old article might strike a chord with Gophers</p>
<p>“Overengineering seems to be a pet peeve of yours.”</p>
<p>"..you’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products.”</p>
<p>"Duct tape programmers are pragmatic"</p>
<p>"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."</p>
<p>"Duct tape programmers don’t give a shit what you think about them. They stick to simple basic and easy to use tools and use the extra brainpower that these tools leave them to write more useful features for their customers."</p>
<p>Complete article can be found below</p>
<p><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html</a></p>
<hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>Ainar-G: <pre><p>You forgot the most important quote.</p>
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<p>One thing you have to be careful about, though, is that duct tape programmers are the software world equivalent of pretty boys... those breathtakingly good-looking young men who can roll out of bed, without shaving, without combing their hair, and without brushing their teeth, and get on the subway in yesterday’s dirty clothes and look beautiful, because that’s who they are. You, my friend, cannot go out in public without combing your hair. It will frighten the children. Because you’re just not that pretty. 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.</p>
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<p>Yes, we have a language that encourages the just-get-it-done approach. But that doesn't mean that you can now write untested, undocumented, silly, and non-idiomatic code whenever you feel like it.</p></pre>digitalyatri: <pre><p>: ) Agreed</p></pre>ExploreAndTell: <pre><p>There is a time for duct tape just as there is a time for designing 4 months in advance.</p></pre>ShikaNoTone: <pre><p>jwz's response to his depiction in the article: <a href="http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/">http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/</a></p>
<p>That response also links to a response by the author of the mentioned book.</p></pre>venus_love_me_chain: <pre><p>And for shit like this is where things like Javascript and PHP are born.</p></pre>
