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> Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance Strangely though their absence coincides in roughly 80% of all programmes, so "being at odds with" is meant
by dmichulke 8y ago
> Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance
Strangely though their absence coincides in roughly 80% of all programmes, so "being at odds with" is meant as
(Efficiency -> NOT Elegance) AND (Elegance -> NOT Efficiency)
but not as
Elegance XOR Efficiency
- ptero 8y agoWhat you are saying that there are a lot of programs that are neither elegant nor efficient. Few would dispute this, but I think this case is still covered by the original formulation. For example I do not see "being drunk is fundamentally at odds with performing surgery" being invalidated by a bunch of folks writing programs in offices and fitting in neither bin. Caveat: I am not a native English speaker.