<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:04 PM, maxigas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maxigas@anargeek.net">maxigas@anargeek.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="Ih2E3d">> That said, "exploratory programming" can easily be taken as an excuse<br>
> for "I don't want to bother thinking about the problem; I just want to<br>
> see some code compile and run."<br>
<br>
</div>there was a memorable quote from last year's Chaos Computer Congress: "Hours of planning can save<br>
days of coding." which was turned into the more head-on "Days of coding can save hours of<br>
planning." maxime. :P<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>I've seen months of planning can saves days of programming as well. There is a reason why people rebel against waterfall approaches.<br><br>These maxims cut both ways. It all depends on who's working on the problem.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>yc<br><br></div></div>