There is absolutely shame in "good enough". Mainly that created by weaselly coworkers trying to get ahead and establish technical superiority in the eyes of the non-techie management. These people never write any code themselves but are the first to start WTF'ing really loudly when someone else completes something. Usually the volume and banality of things programmers complain about identify their technical competence, with the bottom of the barrel being complaints about whitespace and formatting. "WTF! Bob put TWO spaces instead of ONE all after method names all over the ENTIRE file! whaaah!" Yes, it becomes this petty with some people.
So a smart programmer will strive for 'quick perfection', establish respect in some other way to counter this, or if they really want to sink that low, fight back with similar tactics. Smart programmers can also create review traps if they can guess what colleagues will attack them on.
Its also good if you beat up another programmer on the first day so the others know not to mess with you ;).
enjoyed reading your comment, but if one is drawing too many similarities between their work environment and prison, it could be time to find/create a new work environment.
So a smart programmer will strive for 'quick perfection', establish respect in some other way to counter this, or if they really want to sink that low, fight back with similar tactics. Smart programmers can also create review traps if they can guess what colleagues will attack them on.
Its also good if you beat up another programmer on the first day so the others know not to mess with you ;).