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Current group: bit.listserv.tsorexx
Re: Efficiency or lack thereof
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| | From: | Gardiner, Roy | | Subject: | Re: Efficiency or lack thereof | | Date: | 19 Jan 2005 02:14:15 -0800 |
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 | > From: Gray, Alastair [SMTP:Alastair.Gray@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
> These illustrate perhaps the fundamental issue with coding, what are you
> coding 'for'?
>
> Code for performance
> Code for elegance
> Code for error handling
> Code for simplicity
> Code for fun
> ...
> Code for local knowledge base
>
> Whatever your driver, you can always expect to be challenged by someone
> else
> on the basis of another.
>
Indeed so, Alastair, and well worth IMO developing. Again IMO I
believe there to be 4 objectives in normal, professional programming.
1. That it works 2. On time, within budget 3. Easy to maintain
4. Fast
Which implies that the simplest, most straightforward solution is
always one's first resort, because that is likely to be easy to develop, low
cost of development and easy to read. It may not be fast, mind.
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