[brl]

Yes, I mean it's not unusual to take the shortcuts described in the article to produce working code. Even the very best programmers who turn in immaculately maintainable software do not just sit down at their desk and type perfect code into their editor.

First you write a really bad version that mostly works. Then you go back and fix that abomination before anybody else sees it. You don't want everybody else to think you suck at programming, right? :)