.. title: Programming related thought
.. slug: programming-related-thought
.. date: 2007-07-14 14:31:00
.. tags: programming, python, software development
.. category: Programming
.. description: Reflection on Mark Pilgrim's advice about completing software features properly versus just making them work

While reading through {{% wikipedia article="Mark Pilgrim (software developer)" %}}'s {{% wikipedia article="Dive Into Python" %}}, stumbled upon this
interesting thought, wherein he says that, when you 'plan' to develop a full
-fledged feature for a software which will help in certain tasks, and if you
end up coding a small version, make it just work rather than a completed polished 'as-per-plan' thing, then you are not only being inefficient, but you are
being rude (to your customers).

That's a very good thought. Most of times, I think of designing a software and
when it reaches to level where it works, I stop there and move to next. The
working thing, sometimes never goes past my computer.