Apparently it was Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month who wrote that, when building a new software system, you should “plan to throw one away”. It sounds like great advice, but I haven’t seen anyone follow it. I recently built a prototype of an internal tool at work and I thought this time I will throw it away. The tecnology I chose was Python. Normally when I write Python, I insist on using mypy the type checker. This time I didn’t use it, and I didn’t write any tests either. It...
