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Ward Cunningham coined the term technical debt as a metaphor for the trade-off between writing clean code at higher cost and delayed delivery, and writing messy code cheap and fast at the cost of higher maintenance efforts once it's shipped. Joshua Kerievsky extended the metaphor to architecture and design. READ FULL ARTICLE (login required) »
