Comment by coopsmoss

4 years ago

Why? It seems very rational. Especially if you're just going to run it once to get a value and not as a part of some system.

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kamray23  4 years ago

Exactly, that's not a flaw, that's rational behaviour. Why design an intricate solution for a one-off. Using 15 times the amount of time it would have taken you manually to automate a pretty standard task is just stupid, though we all do it.

Do the first thing that works, don't overthink it.

  • bruce343434  4 years ago

    Why learn anything at all then? Why bother learning OOP paradigms if procedural just works? Why bother ...? Do you see the flaw in your argument?

    • passivate  4 years ago

      I think the flaw is you misinterpreting the argument.

      In my opinion, the bottom line with obvious caveats is this - Human-time is more valuable than CPU-time.

      If you are shipping at scale then the calculus is different - Don't waste end-users' human-time and their cpu-time and/or server's cpu-time.

      If you're writing code with a team the calculus is different - Use/Learn techniques and tools to reduce the teams' human-time wastage plus all the above.

      If you're writing code just for yourself the calculus is different - Save your own human-time.