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diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 64124181..29b577a1 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ strange program is the first step for someone on the long road to becoming a regular contributor to your project. Make things dead simple for them. If they make a change, make it dead simple for them to see if it breaks something. +(All this takes extra effort, and it isn't worth doing for throwaway +prototypes, but the effort pays dividends in situations where unit tests and +other best practices pay dividends.) + But this is a hard property for a codebase to start out with, even harder to preserve, and impossible to regain once lost. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the lucid clarity of initial versions of a program is |