# from A. Pagaltzis # on Monday 29 October 2007 15:25: >* Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-29 23:15]: >> Best is the enemy of the good.
No. "Best" is what "the good" should aim to be. If "best" is better than "good", why choose the worst of the two? >And next time this will be handy, it will also be too big a >change vs. an incremental suboptimal solution, and the overnext >time as well, and ever on. Yep. What we usually end up with when someone says "the perfect should not stand in the way of the good" is "almost-works standing in the way of good-enough" or, as with the toolchain: "forever-backwards-compatible-with-halfway-almost-ok." --Eric -- Chicken farmer's observation: Clunk is the past tense of cluck. --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------