

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:18 , Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> sent:

>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:12:27PM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
>>     I just have to respond to this.  I have been writing code for 27
>> years and every time I get a neophyte programmer in they want to cut
>> corners to save programming time.  Here's the bottom line - if it saves
>> you a day in coding but costs the user 3/4 of a second in application
>> time would you consider that a good tradeoff?  Not if you have over 100
>> users and they're having to deal with that 3/4 of a second 20 or so
>> times a day, every day for a year.  Remember, it's only hard for you to
>> program it correctly once - it's a PITA for the user many times a day.
>
>I sort of agree, with the very large caveat that "once" is unlikely.
>The time to write the code is often dwarfed by the time to maintain
>the code. So your optimizations had damn well better be as readable
>as you can make them, and well-commented.
>

    Too true.  That's why I comment like a madman ;-)

Jan




