[sbandyopadhyay]

False dichotomy. You can do some things quickly in PHP (vs other languages), and some things in life and in programming need to be done quickly.

There's a place for doing things fast, and a place for doing things right. You're wrong to assume everything requires the latter.

[justinjlynn]

If you don't have time to do things right, how are you ever going to find time to do them over and over again?

[sbandyopadhyay]

Sometimes, doing things fast opens up opportunities to do things right.

[justinjlynn]

This is true. However, if you do things fast and wrong, you've got an even bigger problem in figuring it out how to do things right because now you have to do both at the same time, and usually with the same number of people.

[justinjlynn]

You know, not only that, but this implies that wrong is always fast. That is wrong. Often, wrong goes slower as time goes on. I'd rather have slow, steady progress than explosive growth and eventual failure.

[epochwolf]

I've got some legacy apps I work on that prove that wrong. :)

[gbog]

False dichotomy too. When I was kid my parents always required me too do things "vite et bien" (fast and well) and it its only much later, with more experience and also some understanding of what is said by Zhuangzi the Taoist, that I understood that both are compatible, and even require each other. Example: if you tidy up your room, doing it slowly means focusing on ordering your Lego by size and color, while doing it fast means moving everything to their place in less than 5 mn.