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From: budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd)
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Subject: Re: Code Reuse (was Re: Inheritance vs. Composition)
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Date: 19 Feb 90 17:02:55 GMT
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In article <CIMSHOP!DAVIDM.90Feb16140634@uunet.UU.NET> cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes:
>A quote I stole from Jon Krueger (forgive me, Jon :-) in comp.databases who
>borrowed it from Knuth:
>
>	Knuth (loosely): more evil has been done in the name of 
>	performance than any other area.
>

In the interests of factual accuracy, let me point out that the quote
should be attributed to Bill Wulf, not Don Knuth.  Here it is:

	``More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency
(without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason -
including blind stupidity''  

in W. A. Wulf, ``A Case Against the GOTO'', 
Proceedings of the 25th National ACM Conference, August 1972, pp 791-97.
Has been reprinted many times, for example in ``Classics in Software
Engineering'', edited by Ed Yourdon, published by Yourdon press.

--tim budd, budd@cs.orst.edu