Thursday, July 14, 2011

Who cares if the computer takes a few more cycles to compile something?

"Someone will try to read your code in a few months' time to make some changes. We easily forget that extra user of the code, yet that user is actually the most important. Who cares if the computer takes a few more cycles to compile something? It does matter if it takes a programmer a week to make a change that would have taken only an hour if she had understood your code."

-- Martin Fowler in Refactoring

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