[Python-Dev] YAGNI (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:09:46 -0600 

Tim> Heck, if Unix dweebs had applied YAGNI, ls wouldn't have 51 useless
Tim> options <wink>.

I believe the first couple Unix programmers did, though I doubt they thought of it in precisely that acronym. It was the masses that followed (probably influenced by some expatriate VMS programmers) who got carried away with adding thirty-leven options to every little filter.

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