optimization tricks ?

[dgould@REDACTED]

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:32:01AM +0100, Francesco Cesarini wrote:
> Erlang methodology:
> 
> 1. First make it work
> 2. Then make it beautiful
> 3. Then [if you *really* *really* have to] make it fast [keeping it
> beautiful and correct].
> 
> In 9 cases out of 10, you will realize you do not need step 3 as the
> application runs fast enough. In the 10th case, you probably won't have
> time for the third step.

Very nice. I prefer however to:

 1. First make it beautiful
 2. Then make it work

Since 2 almost naturally follows from 1.

The corollary is that one rarely ends up debugging pretty code.

-dg "yes I am mostly serious about this"


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