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Related, a famous example of how "doing nothing" can be a surprisingly difficult problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Related, a famous example of how "doing nothing" can be a surprisingly difficult problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
- bch 11y agoYour example doesn't obviously support this, but reminded me of Mark Twain's "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoActually Blaise Pascal's, from Provincial Letters XVI.
- npizzolato 11y agoI like the story of how Grep is fast because it tries to do as little work as possible. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...