It’s hard to describe how tiring it is to hear someone quote Donald Knuth (or Tony Hoare) in the wrong context. I’m not the only one annoyed by this. In “Structured Programming with go to Statements”, Knuth says:
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of [...]
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Everything isn’t about the Knuth quote
August 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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