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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficient coding considered harmful?
Message-ID: <1284@X.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 15:04:00 GMT
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In article <8059@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, scs@athena.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
R> I forgot to recommend The Elements of Programming Style
e> (Kernighan and Plauger) in my previous article.  If you haven't
a> read it already, do so; and read it again if you have.  It's got
d> more solid, practical advice on good style on each page than
 > you'll see on the net in a year, and it's got a whole chapter on
i> efficiency, too (relegated to the back, where it belongs).  Don't
t> let the Fortran and PL/I throw you--with a little thought all of
!> the issues being discussed can be seen still to be supremely
 > important today.

I would like to second this recommendation.  It is also the source of my
favorite quote, which happens to be on this very topic:  "Presumably it was
essential to get the wrong answer as fast as possible."
 
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