Re: Just for the record

"Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message news:x7ednaZSF7Z7WDrZnZ2dnUVZ8qGdnZ2d_at_pipex.net...
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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.
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> 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".
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> Roy
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I had forgotten that Knuth said it, but yeah! Received on Sun Jul 02 2006 - 15:45:23 CEST