Fast! Fast. Fast?
I believe1 it was Kent Beck who coined the following statement:
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
An easy way to memorise this:
- Fast! - make it work
- Fast. - make it right
- Fast? - make it fast
In other words:
- Fast! - build it quickly
- Fast. - tidy it up
- Fast? - make it performant, if needed
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