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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a65bb7bde679ed1d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.204.151.133 with SMTP id c5mr1594155bkw.8.1322774438870; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:20:38 -0800 (PST) Path: y3ni20421bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ann: Natools.Chunked_Strings, beta 1 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:19:15 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4ed4fc37$0$2537$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: Thn1y/POk6mOftWPUxAaVg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.60 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14778 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2011-12-01T22:19:15+01:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:07:09 +0100, Jeffrey Carter = a =C3=A9crit: > The evil of premature optimization is the waste of effort when the = > optimization is unnecessary. Or also when optimization is at the cost of clarity (optimized = implementation is often less easy to understand and more error prone, as= = it involves special cases everywhere). -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: [Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univer= sity]