We have to accept that mistakes will be made and just hope that none of them are crippling. After all, if developers are cursing our design decisions years from now, that means we succeeded!
A lovely way of framing it.
Reminds me of a Stroustroup quote: There are only two kinds of programming languages, the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
And that reminds me of Alan Kay saying the Macintosh (I believe it was) was the first computer worth criticizing.
A lovely way of framing it.
Reminds me of a Stroustroup quote: There are only two kinds of programming languages, the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
And that reminds me of Alan Kay saying the Macintosh (I believe it was) was the first computer worth criticizing.