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Subject: Re: Design choices in Crafty

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 17:29:34 06/24/04

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On June 24, 2004 at 07:50:33, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>OK, in general I agree with Knuth: premature optimization is the root of all
>evil.

This is often attributed to Knuth. I think it is originally by Hoare (the one,
who invented quicksort).


Dieter.

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the
first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will
you ever debug it?" -- Brian Kernighan




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