[Python-Dev] YAGNI

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. <wink><wink>

Skip