From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 04:39:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml References: <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fgagu$6ae$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fjgha$blf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <35mqhtkdfma2rggv1htcaq6vfn2ihs67a1@4ax.com> <9fli1b$4aa$1@nh.pace.co.uk> From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Mail-Copies-To: nobody Organization: Atid/2 X-Cise: "Tony Schliesser" X-CompuServe-Customer: Yes X-Coriate: NCAE@NewAmerica.org X-Ecrate: Bob Germer X-Punge: Micro$oft X-Sanguinate: themvsguy@email.com X-Terminate: SPA(GIS) Message-ID: <3b1f6754$6$fuzhry$mr2ice@va.news.verio.net> X-Newsreader: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.28a/28 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 07:36:52 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.55.10.86 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 991913976 206.55.10.86 (Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:39:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:39:36 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10446 comp.lang.ada:8299 comp.lang.awk:2842 comp.lang.clarion:21300 comp.lang.java.programmer:74365 comp.lang.pl1:841 comp.lang.vrml:3583 Date: 2001-06-07T07:36:52-04:00 List-Id: In , on 06/06/2001 at 03:53 PM, Pete Thompson said: >More experienced people are generally faster than newbie coders, FSVO faster. The newbies are less likely to take the time to do it right. They may deliver the code faster, but with significant downstream costs as bugs materialize. "There's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over." >If you're asking for my personal experiences, then yes it would hurt >everyone (including the shareholders and customers) if I needlessly >broke the code up into multiple statements that used up more clock >cycles, especially if it's a piece of code that needs to be called >often. "You have to carve the bird at the joints. It is sound practice to write code in pieces that naturally divide. It is wasteful and unmaintainable to break the code up arbitrarily. In your environment, the performance impact is part of the "joints" metric. >People complained about Pascal because it was so "structured". Some people. Other people complained about Pascal because it was too unstructured and ineptly structured. Shileds up, Scotty. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 Team OS/2 Team PL/I Any unsolicited commercial junk E-mail will be subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. I mangled my E-mail address to foil automated spammers; reply to domain acm dot org user shmuel to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org -----------------------------------------------------------