• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@g...>
• Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 17:26:01 -0500

Petite Abeille scripsit:

> Fair enough. FWIW, my personal experience is the exact opposite:
> pointless, bloated, big design up-front, busy work which never gets
> anything done. But as always, YMMV.

Believe me, I've had plenty of experience of that.  If you truly aren't
going to need something, YAGNI is a huge win.  But there's no reason to
pretend that just because this is only the first report you are writing,
that there won't be hundreds more reports.

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and it hasn't made us Chinese.  On the contrary,
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