> The whole concept of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is contrary to the software engineering maxim design first, code second. I'm not famili

> The whole concept of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is contrary to the software engineering maxim design first, code second. I'm not familiar with that maxim but it sounds very waterfally. That's a maxim agile developers would have rejected two decades ago. (In fairness this article is from 2009 when agile was still relatively new.)