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- From: j_hamer@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (j_hamer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
- Subject: Re: Help !!
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:47:21 GMT
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- In article <93021.154835U35395@uicvm.uic.edu>, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
- <U35395@uicvm.uic.edu> wrote:
- >
- > If you wanted to write it in Pascal, why didn't you just compile it
- > in Pascal? Heiner's program may well run longer than yours. On the
- > other hand it is shorter, and much easier to see that it is correct.
- > Since my machines spend far more time waiting for my keystrokes than
- > they do working, I see no reason to worry about making code run faster
- > unless it is now running too slow. Sufficient unto the day is the
- > evil thereof; why should I worry about trivial 'inefficiencies' like
- > those you see in Heiner's code, until they are making my work
- > unacceptably slow?
- >
- > -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
- > University of Illinois at Chicago
-
- I am not particularly worried about the performance of Heiner's program (it
- is lousy, but this is no immediate concern to a beginner). It seemed to me
- that Mike's original posting was asking for some guidance, not a quick
- hack. Quite simply, if you want to develop from a Prolog beginner into a
- proficient Prolog programmer, then you will spend your time studying good
- code.
-
- -- John Hamer Email: J_Hamer@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
- -- Department of Computer Science
- -- University of Auckland, New Zealand.
-