On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:12:27PM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> I just have to respond to this. I have been writing code for 27
> years and every time I get a neophyte programmer in they want to cut
> corners to save programming time. Here's the bottom line - if it saves
> you a day in coding but costs the user 3/4 of a second in application
> time would you consider that a good tradeoff? Not if you have over 100
> users and they're having to deal with that 3/4 of a second 20 or so
> times a day, every day for a year. Remember, it's only hard for you to
> program it correctly once - it's a PITA for the user many times a day.
I sort of agree, with the very large caveat that "once" is unlikely.
The time to write the code is often dwarfed by the time to maintain
the code. So your optimizations had damn well better be as readable
as you can make them, and well-commented.
-- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.comReceived on Tue Jun 7 20:15:06 2005
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