[_pmf_]

> How many would you say are maintainable by someone with less business knowledge and a weaker grasp of the system’s design? How many will not snowball into an unmaintainable mess? How many do you truly believe could last fifteen years? I’ll bet that number is quite a bit lower than all of them.

Coincidentally, the number of projects where the client offers to pay for tens of man years is also quite low. This is something I'd recommend to be taken into consideration by armchair philosophers portraying the state of the software industry.

[pif]

I've seen this worshipping of "ship soon" many times. It always ended with a buggy and messy software, an unhappy customer and a stressed development team.

[nickpsecurity]

It also turns people into millionaires and billionaires. It's how the top hardware and software companies got their market share. So, one should always assess on given project or company the First Mover & time-to-market for feature sets advantages vs quality or user perception.

[pif]

Well, the article was about "clean code", not about "most efficient for business" code :-)