Re: Compiled version of awk program

[arnold]

I stand corrected. :-)

Thanks.

The Knuth paper is reprinted in his book "Literate Programmng" which
is very much worth owning.

Arnold

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> > > "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." --Tony Hoare.
> > 
> > It was Donald Knuth who said this, in his landmark paper
> > "Structured Programming With GOTO Statements".  :-)
>
> I know that Knuth is famous for popularizing it.  But I researched
> this before posting it.  I could not find a free version of Knuth's
> paper but I found this reference.
>
>     https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451
>
>     Every programmer with a few years' experience or education has
>     heard the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil."
>     This famous quote by Sir Tony Hoare (popularized by Donald Knuth)
>     has become a best practice among software engineers.
>     ...
>     The second thing to note is that Hoare did not simply say,
>     "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." He said, "We
>     should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
>     premature optimization is the root of all evil."
>     ...
>
> According to stack exchange Knuth himself refers to this as "Hoare's Dictum".
>
>     
> https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/63968/optimization-the-root-of-all-evil-in-statistics
>     Knuth refers to this as "Hoare's Dictum" 15 years later
>
> And that's really all I know about it!
>
> > Tony Hoare has other pithy statements to his credit, though.
>
> Both of them are masters! :-)
>
> Bob