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About forty years ago, I did a weekend consulting gig at a lab in San Diego where they had a massive N^2 connection problem of data processing code vs. data for
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
About forty years ago, I did a weekend consulting gig at a lab in San Diego where they had a massive N^2 connection problem of data processing code vs. data formats. I wrote a FORTRAN program to enumerate all combinations and generate a lot of very baroque code. My customer was not happy with the solution until I showed them how simple it was to modify the generating code and regenerate the glue code. Then they liked the approach. If I had written this a few years later, I would have used Lisp, and things would have been even simpler.