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From: "Richard Turner" <foo@foo.com>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax...
Date: 1997/06/17
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Spam Hater wrote ...
> OK, how about "waste of time and money" ?  OTOH, as Robert Dewar 
> pointed out, fanatic adherence to "rules" can be counter-productive.
> If your program spends 98% of its time inside that loop, and it
> is not meeting its timing requirements, ....

But "waste" is at best relative to something else.

Bumming instructions out of a loop might be a waste today but might yield
some saving (of time or money or both) tomorrow.