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by humblepatience 5868 days ago
I wrote a response to this on my blog

http://www.scottschulthess.com/coding/?p=143

Basically, there are other benefits to TDD than just preventing regression.

Documentation and ease of debugging while your writing code being the biggest ones.

In a non-compiled language it can serve to verify that your at least runs without gross failure a little like the compiler does.