I'm with you although I'd call it: Maintainability Of course, for small throwaway apps, this doesn't matter. But for apps that will need to be maintained and enhanced and modified over time, it is important to have it coded properly, not just have it working. It is important to be able to make changes to it without breaking everything (or having to spend a week, six months down the road, trying to figure out how the code is actually working so that I can enhance it), etc. My two cents, -D