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This isn't "fail" so much as it is acknowledging that neither you nor your customers will know what they like until they have something to play with.
by dhimes 11y ago
This isn't "fail" so much as it is acknowledging that neither you nor your customers will know what they like until they have something to play with.
- mark-r 11y agoMy point was that Knuth wasn't considering that possibility when he wrote the quote. In those times it was assumed that if you were writing software, there was a darn good reason for it. The idea that you might write software that doesn't fulfill a compelling need is a rather modern invention.
- over 11y agoExcept that optimizing cold code is writing software that doesn't fulfill a compelling need.