From 90758e73f8845392d29645a611c2c3bea582faad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kartik K. Agaram" Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:33:18 -0800 Subject: 2747 Thanks Ben Trask for engaging with my arguments. --- Readme.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Readme.md') 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 -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0