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My buddy at Microsoft tells me that in terms of automation, they use the dogma that if you need to do it once or twice, you just do it by hand. If you need to d
by sterling312 14y ago
My buddy at Microsoft tells me that in terms of automation, they use the dogma that if you need to do it once or twice, you just do it by hand. If you need to do it more than that, you automate it.
- wickedchicken 14y agoDijkstra says it even more succinctly: 'two or more, use a for'.
- crntaylor 14y agoThat is ever so subtly different.
- ht_th 14y agoThere are always only three cases: 0, 1, and many
- eru 14y agoA good rule of thumb. A more nuanced look proves even more helpful: There are graduations between manual and automatic. Semi-automation can be enormously productive, too. (And if you go beyond just automation, there's making your scripts bullet-proof under all circumstances. Which is useful, if you are doing tasks not only a few hundred times but even more often.)