YAPC::NA 2004 Perl Style Guides for Large Projects #7

Cowboy Programming

... or -- the Four Vices of the Programmer

  • galloping off on one's own without a prior plan (the runaway one-liner)

  • unnecessarily dense, unreadable code (False Hubris?)

  • reinventing the wheel unnecessarily (False Impatience?)

  • brute-force programming (False Laziness?)

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