The purpose of a program is to satisfy the users, not the developers or the managers, and if the next developer needs to study a thing or two before understandi

The purpose of a program is to satisfy the users, not the developers or the managers, and if the next developer needs to study a thing or two before understanding the code that is OK. Simplicity should be sacrificed for performance. This is self contradictory. Programmer resources need to be allocated to pleasing the users. To please users, you need a certain amount of performance. Performance is not simply and end in itself. Programmer resources can be used to please users in other ways.