> In my experience, you will always spend the time.
not in mine, but I've seen a fair amount of very one-off, time-limited projects (the shortest being a client calling a morning for a very simple customized video playback app needed for that very evening, and a lot of it being only needed for a few months)
True, that’s an exception. It reminds me of the way some missile control software never bothers to free memory because by the time it runs out of RAM it’s already exploded…
not in mine, but I've seen a fair amount of very one-off, time-limited projects (the shortest being a client calling a morning for a very simple customized video playback app needed for that very evening, and a lot of it being only needed for a few months)