In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Permature optimalization is the root of all evil. (Who said that?) > >Knuth I think.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming." --C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting Hoare) "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." --Knuth restates Hoare -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Adopt A Process -- stop killing all your children! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
