in reply to On Golf
This is actually a quote by Dijkstra (sp? and I forgot his first name), and I had a similar response when I first read it (in a rather wonderful book entitled Classics in Computer Programming (I think...)). Less symbols means less code, so it's optimization, which is of incredible conceptual importance (particularly when generating code rather than writing it. I'm starting to sympathize with the poor guys who had to write the first assemblers in machine code...). Oh well, one can't expect the man to be right all the time.
~Cybercosis
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Re: Re: On Golf
by willdooUK (Beadle) on May 21, 2001 at 14:40 UTC | |
by rchiav (Deacon) on May 21, 2001 at 18:51 UTC | |
by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Jul 14, 2004 at 21:01 UTC | |
by Cybercosis (Monk) on May 22, 2001 at 10:24 UTC |
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