Author: James Robertson
Date: 18:04:00 10/23/98
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On October 23, 1998 at 18:12:10, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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 My code is very optimized, and I haven't even gotton a useful check-evasion function..... Things may blow up very badly soon when I try to change something..... I guess I will have to think about more macros and stuff. One of the drawbacks of teaching yourself to program..... you have no clue as to the conventions and general wisdom of programming!!! James
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