On Priorities

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 17/12/2009 - 20:35

Browsing the Great Programming Quotes question over on StackOverflow, I found a really thought provoking quote:

Make it Correct.
Make it Clear.
Make it Concise.
Make it Fast.

In that order.

(Attributed to Wes Dyer)

While there's a lot that could be written about this, I've just one observation ...

All too often, it seems our customers would rank things different ...

Make it Fast.
Make it Clear.
Make it Concise.
Make it Correct.

In that order.

Sigh.