(12-09-2016, 01:26 PM)iomonk Wrote: So I think doing one thing and doing it well lends to this aspect of the unix philosophy because now that the simple program has been perfected, the author can now start focusing on its documentation. Which I greatly appreciate.

This. Also see http://250bpm.com/blog:50 for a perfect writeup about why it is important to 'finish' a project.

You have feature-completeness? Good! Now start improving tests, documentation, performance, security, port it to other systems, maintain it! Software is hard enough when it is finished.