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by eksemplar 3291 days ago
Which is the text book explanation, but you can gaffatape and still do SOLID, making everything easily replaceable later on.

The key feature of gaffatape programming is that it gets shit done, to make sure you're still around to do a 3.0 release.

The key downside of gaffatape is that it requires better talent, because your programmers need to know how to hack it in a way that won't ruin your codebase.