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It depends whether you're a true craftsman, a capitalist, or somewhere in between.

I've seen some ugly crap code that made loads of money. Still pig lipstick imho.

Beauty is perspective, no? Change the viewing angle, change how you see the piece, how you experience the art and how it makes you feel changes.

Revenue was probably the wrong word. Is it doing what it was intended to do? Does it do it well? That’s the beauty, not what it looks like in a text file.

(not a craftsman, not a capitalist, closer to a nihilist utilitarian with a pinch of hope)

It is definitely a relativistic situation, and thank you for your generous reply, you made me smile :D

The pleasure was all mine, I appreciated the conversation.

The client probably doesn’t care how clean the code is…all they want is to see it working and they’ll pay a lot of money for it. I’ve found it better to move fast and create code that gets the job done rather than spend more time on making “prettier” code that does the same thing from the client’s perspective.

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