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It depends on what's needful. Sometimes the right thing to do is to hack out the thing that works, as quickly as possible. Sometimes the right thing to do is to work carefully on the design. Other times you need the fastest possible code, and then you don't use Perl.

We live in a world. Programming is part of that world. It doesn't make sense to ask what a monk 'should' do except in relation to the rest of the world.

No 'ethos' is better than the others. All have their places.

In reply to Re: Monk ethics: Beauty vs. Power by Dominus
in thread Monk ethics: Beauty vs. Power by kaatunut

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