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From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/06
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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 09:21:11 -0500, Robert Martin <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:
>
>Charles Hixson wrote in message <35F252DD.5187538@earthlink.net>...
>
>>Code should be easy to understand AND to maintain.  Both need to be
>>optimized.  Somehow.
>
>And that will never happen until we all understand the costs and benefits of
>each technique, and abandon the practice of blindly following a technique.
>SP is one such technique.  Using mid exit loops is another.  We cannot
>assert that SP is *always good*.  By the same token we cannot assert that
>mid exit loops are always good.

Be careful, your pragmatism is showing again...

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