 | Reminds me of an old coding-related tagline: "Cheap, fast, good: Pick
two".
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"Gardiner, Roy"
2005-01-19 04:13
To: TSO-REXX@VM.MARIST.EDU
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Subject: Re: Efficiency or lack thereof
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.
> --- 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.
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