[erikb]

You know, the great thing about learning is that everything you learn turns out wrong. And after that the next thing will be that you learn that it's wrong that it's wrong. And so on.

So guess what, you will probably learn next that quick and dirty is an amazing thing. Sometimes the morbid, buggy stuff is exactly what's needed and a well designed solution wouldn't scale to it's task or wouldn't be used because it's so clean.