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I think a lot of people program at work purely for monetary reasons. For this reason they follow the “it works, ship it” mentality because then they can focus on other tasks to make money from. If a sluggish program makes a million dollars but a beautifully written program makes 0, which shows more better craftsmanship? Admittedly that’s an unrealistic situation, but people have different motivations for coding.



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