Re: OK, it's the matter of database structure rather

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:10:24 -0300, Cesar Rabak <csrabak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

ZB escreveu:

How - in your opinion - it's depending on the kind and volume of data?

Because in engineering that's the way things are.

Here we go again.

If I run 14 gauge wire to the electrical outlets of my house, instead
of 0 gauge, because I never imagine carrying a load of 100 amps to my
computer, that's a reasonable choice to make, due to the extra cost of
installing heavier wire. Admittedly, cost is something engineers have
to factor in.

But in programming, things are different.

There is no "real" cost of building a stronger algorithm which can
handle any possible, albeit unlikely, load of data, aside from the
extra mental effort required to think things all the way through.

That may not be how "engineers" are trained, but programmers should
be, because you never know what rocks a user may decide to throw at
your fragile little program.

Anything less, is just a lazy programmer's excuse.


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