[adamwong246]

And yet, having a product that just just barely holds together is the best I could have hoped for, given the time and money constraints. And my barely working stack of crap is better than most other products, because most folks can't even get that far.

Easy to change? Reliable?! Maintainable?!?

Bah humbug! Who needs it? Not me. I'll probably trash this version anyways! If I can get the thing to do one thing reasonable well, it's a winner. The code quality is always secondary to actually getting something done. Once you have a product and some customers and you've proven that it won't explode, then we can talk about performance. But I've seen too many projects strangled under the high-minded ideals of better programmers than I.