[R] Programming Concepts and Philosophy

[jim holtman]

To quote Jon Bentley (Programming Pearls):

"The fastest, cheapest, most reliable piece of code is that which
isn't there; design as much out of your code as you design in."

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Philipp Pagel <p.pagel at wzw.tum.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:04:46AM -0500, hadley wickham wrote:
>> 2008/6/20 cmr.Pent at gmail.com <cmr.Pent at gmail.com>:
>> > On 20 июн, 11:06, Wacek Kusnierczyk
>> > <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierc... at idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
>> >> the result may be that the more beautiful the code, the more the performance
>> >> sucks.
>> >
>> > Sad but true.
>>
>> If you do nothing to your code, in 18 months time its performance will
>> have doubled because computers will have become faster.  Your code
>> will not get easier to understand by itself.
>
> Very true. And I would like to contribute one of my favorite quotations:
>
> "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code."
>  --Bill Harlan
>
> cu
>        Philipp
>
> --
> Dr. Philipp Pagel
> Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
> Technische Universität München
> Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
> 85350 Freising, Germany
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>
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