Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 06:59:19 06/25/04
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On June 24, 2004 at 20:29:34, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >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 I remember hearing this last one for the first time a couple of years ago. At first I thought it was "clever", but then I realized it was omitting an important element: Time. With enough time, you can debug anything. In the worst case, debugging will require complete rewrite. In this way, the question posed is quite answerable, so I no longer find it "clever." Instead, I find it "half-baked." Surely there must be a better way to express the idea it attempts to convey.
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