Re: [Nolug] Introducing myself

On 12/07/08 10:24, Friedrich Gurtler wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> You can argue resource management all day long. However I take those
>>> things into consideration. Most of my programs have very limited
>>> client side footprints. I know throwing more hardware at a
>>> performance issue is barbaric. But I have not had to go there yet.
>>> We have SO MUCH head room on our infrastructure for our current
>>> customer base... I can't see a reason to spend time making it more
>>> efficient when I could spend time adding useful (to humans) code
>>> instead.
>>>
>> I *could* read that as "the hardware's so powerful, who gives a rat's arse
>> about the quality of the source code".
>>
>> But I'm sure that's not what you meant... Is it?
>
>
> I read that as "my goal is to provide value" which is what I want to hear
> from a developer.
>
> Also, you seem to equate "quality of the source code" with efficiency
> first. I tend to equate quality of the source code with correctness,
> maintainability, some other stuff, then efficiency.

(Aside: I was criticized in my younger days for writing "obvious"
code, instead of "being clever". Mainly because I had to maintain
clever code, and hated it.)

Since I also value correctness and maintainability, we seem to be
saying the same thing.

But... as a DBA, I've (and rejected from production) seen lots of
functionally correct, well-coded software that used horrible and/ or
inappropriate algorithms that change the run in hours, when a
correct algorithm would run in minutes or seconds.

The programmers who consistently write such code are usually young,
and always have little knowledge and or care about the "guts" (h/w,
  RDBMS, layout of data) of the system.

That's why I get cranky when people dismiss knowing the h/w.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
What different abilities do I have?
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