Comment by dllthomas
4 years ago
> Except that line was written in a book
I recall it being from his response to the debates over GOTO, and some googling seems to agree.
Not that that takes away from your overall point.
4 years ago
> Except that line was written in a book
I recall it being from his response to the debates over GOTO, and some googling seems to agree.
Not that that takes away from your overall point.
In the office today with my copy of Literate Programming (which contains the essay in question) I can confirm that the sentence does appear in "Structured Programming with goto Statements" (it appears on page 28 of my copy). Here it is in a general context, not pertaining to a single particular example.
In support of your overall point, though, having just said "[w]e should forget about small efficiencies, about 97% of the time", the next paragraph opens: "Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."