Re: Just for the record
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:10:53 +0100
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"David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote in message
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> <kvnkrkptrck_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Dijkstra: SOC = When solving a complex problem, focus on one aspect of
>> the problem (correctness, efficiency, etc.) while bearing in mind that
>> the other aspects exist.
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> I really like this!
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> I hope you won't mind if add a tangential comment.
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> Many of the disastrous database designs that I've seen in the SQL world
> stem
> from a premature preoccupation with efficiency, at the expense of
> sufficient attention to either relevance or correctness.
Surely you must be familiar with what is possibly Don Knuth's most famous maxim: "premature optimization is the root of [most] evil in programming".
Roy Received on Sun Jul 02 2006 - 15:10:53 CEST