Re:John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings
by andrepd on Friday August 17, 2018 @07:08PM
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>The problem is not this advice, but that people tend to stop reading (or remembering) there. It's misapplied or misunderstood so often that I wonder if it shouldn't be promulgated.
That's EXACTLY my problem whenever I hear this or similar advice. It's exactly what I think when I hear people (mis)quote Knuth by mindlessly parroting the old adage (optimization is the root of all evil). Too many people interpret this as a licence to waste resources and bloat your program with reckless abandon to an egregious degree, that I too think people should probably not say spread stuff like this.
That's EXACTLY my problem whenever I hear this or similar advice. It's exactly what I think when I hear people (mis)quote Knuth by mindlessly parroting the old adage (optimization is the root of all evil). Too many people interpret this as a licence to waste resources and bloat your program with reckless abandon to an egregious degree, that I too think people should probably not say spread stuff like this.