Chapter 11: Myopia

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Description

Shortsightedness plagues many human endeavors, and software development is no exception. If you have read the other illnesses up to this point, you might have noticed that each mentions Myopia as a related illness. Lack of long-term considerations permeates much of the poor reasoning that causes problems in development. This short-term approach causes immediate rewards to be visible to the programmer and his superiors, so it is not surprising that it continues to be encouraged. This insidious illness must be tackled with great care and patience if it is eventually to be made insignificant as a problem for software development.

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