[mdparker89]

Why shouldn't I take pride in my work?

>When facing an implementation choice, should a developer opt for solution A, which uses ugly code, or for solution B, which is beautiful? That's not the right question: from the end user's perspective, the alternative doesn't make any sense. The user won't look at the code, especially if the product is not good enough to be even tried.

"Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen;" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Builders

You can write ugly code that works or you can write beautiful code that works. You can't write beautiful code that doesn't work.