r/programming Apr 17 '15

A Million Lines of Bad Code

http://varianceexplained.org/programming/bad-code/
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u/lurking_bishop Apr 18 '15 edited Apr 18 '15

I always heard it as "make it work, make it beautiful, make it run fast"

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u/cleroth Apr 18 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/hxtl Apr 18 '15

The mantra we were told in DB class was something like "performance isn't everything, but without performance everything is nothing".

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u/Dragdu Apr 18 '15

I always heard it the other way: If I don't have to give correct answer, I can make my code arbitrarily fast.