dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a...@a.a)'s article
In general though, I find the "programmer time is more expensive than
hardware" line to largely be a cop-out.
Fair enough, but can you elaborate on this? Of course hardware is getting
cheaper
relative to programming time. This is obvious to anyone who doesn't live under
a
rock. My previous post was pointing out how this is relevant in case that was
less obvious.
Probably because you need to consider maintenance time. Poor quality
ends up costing you in the long term. Good quality code gets reused.
OTOH the age where performance matters, may be coming to an end. I hope
not, because I always considered optimization to be one of the most
interesting things about programming. But it's already becoming a niche
market.
