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> Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." That quote is from Knuth, not Hoare. https://shreev
by lower 9y ago
> Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
That quote is from Knuth, not Hoare.
https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimization-is-the-root-of-all-evil/ https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimi...
- pvg 9y agoThe Hoare attribution is also (at least in part) due to Knuth so it all comes out about even in the end.