>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.
>
Too true. That's why I comment like a madman ;-)
Jan
Received on Tue Jun 7 20:15:09 2005
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