Comment by lower
8 years ago
> Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
That quote is from Knuth, not Hoare.
https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimi...
8 years ago
> Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
That quote is from Knuth, not Hoare.
https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimi...
The Hoare attribution is also (at least in part) due to Knuth so it all comes out about even in the end.