Re: The Problem with Programming

Ingvar Nilsen wrote:

If speed is crucial, one could use a profiler to track down the
bottlenecks afterwards, otherwise he put emphasises on readability of
the code, first and foremost. He also presented examples which I
before used to regard silly programming, like:

if (b = True) then
begin
bla bla
end
else
if (b = False) then
begin
bla bla
end

is preferred to:

if (b) then
bla bla
else
bla bla

Disagree. Si better the second option, more redeable. First just add
6*2 * 2 bytes to my hard disk, without benefits.

--
Donald
.

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