Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:12:10 10/23/98
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On October 23, 1998 at 17:35:39, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: >Yes, this makes perfect sense to me now, because I have somewhere between 10000 >and 15000 lines of code that was *not* designed for change! But thanks for the >tip - I will try to keep it in mind in future. Well, I guess I learned my lesson >the hard way. Very often I have sections of code that appear many times in the >program, but with minor differences each time, so that when I wrote it I tended >to use cut and paste, editing the minor differences by hand, rather than macros. >Now I have to live with this monster! Premature optimization is one of the deadly sins of software engineering. bruce
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