Quality matters.
Programs have bugs. Programs need maintenance and expansion. Programs have multiple programmers.
Programming well requires us to find a balance between getting the job done and allowing us to do so well into the future. We can trade any of time, resources, and quality for any other. How well we do that determines our skill as pragmatic craftworkers.
Understanding Perl is important. So is cultivating a sense of good taste. The only way to do so is to practice maintaining code and reading and writing great code. This path has no shortcuts, but this path does have guideposts.
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