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Discussion on: Which principle or saying is wrong and/or misused?

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Savvas Stephanides

"Clean code".

People assume that the process for "clean code" is "code should be clean from the moment you try to make it work to the end". No. The very principle of clean code is "make it work, even if the code is crap. Then, once it works as you'd expect, then change it to make it clean"