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<CAE1XxDHQXLXdSU=uf=ica2nfkudeytf+rj4shxp3uy_m2rp...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 07/18/2013
at 04:13 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>Of course alphabetic is very inefficient. In the Unioted States more
>thsan half of the business in many insurance lines is in "CA', 'NY',
>and 'TX'. Programmers keep such sets of if-then-elses in
>lexicographic sequence to simplify their maintenance.
Some do. Others devise tools so that the maintenance is still simple
but the code is more efficient.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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