Much like Chuck Norris references in movies from 2004, I get the sense that this advice is a product of its time. One of those “it makes more sense if you were

Much like Chuck Norris references in movies from 2004, I get the sense that this advice is a product of its time. One of those “it makes more sense if you were there” things. (It even starts off acknowledging that it’s an article about current trends!) Not to say it doesn’t generally still hold true, but this part stuck out to me: > Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of non-critical parts of their programs I don’t think this is widely true today (outside e.g. game development anyway). If it were, we’d probably have lots of fast software that’s very hard to read! But computers were a lot slower then, compilers weren’t as advanced, and it would make a lot of sense if performance was top of mind for most programmers at the time.