Monday, December 15, 2008

The root of all evil ...

http://www.sorgonet.com/supercomputing/films/hal9000.gif For years Donald Knuths famous quote was standing:
Premature optimization is the root of all evil


But in his recent blog-post Adam Bien is taking it up with Donald Knuth:
Premature encapsulation is the root of all evil


In his sweeping post Adam also kills a pattern (seems to be his latest hobby), encompasses leaky abstraction and promotes KISS/YAGNI.

Interesting read...

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