Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: CRCs
Message-ID: <1991May3.191210.22964@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <8992@crash.cts.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 1991 19:12:10 GMT

In article <8992@crash.cts.com> psonnek@pro-mansion.cts.com (Patrick Sonnek) writes:

[quotes ongoing discussion of HLL's vs assembler and an opinion on the
 need for an application to run faster if it runs well]

>I don't consider speed to be pointless.  My time is valuable. I don't want to
>have to wait around for inefficient code.  I think you will find my opinions
>about speed to be consistant with the users (as opposed to programmers) out
>there in the world.

I consider myself a user, and I suppose my time is valuable. This endless
search for more speed certainly doesn't make me want to jump up and down.
I'd rather see elegance, beauty, thought,etc...put into problems than
lines of programmers/users churning out endless code and speadsheets.

I'm not saying that there isn't a time and place for fast computers. I am
saying it's relatively unimportant in the larger scheme of things. There
are more important issues involved with computing, from a uer's point of
view at least, than just getting anything to run faster.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
[my opinions,etc...]