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spiritway, today: "At some point it becomes necessary to release a product while the need for it still exists, while the price is still within reach of the target market, even if there are lingering issues."

MacUser, November 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
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Re^3: What is quality?
by spiritway (Vicar) on Jul 31, 2006 at 17:52 UTC

    That's very similar to something I read about artists - and that I believe applies to software developers. The saying was along the lines of "(an artist|a programmer) doesn't finish a work so much as s/he abandons it." I guess if they won't abandon it, you have to shoot them...