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Design as, one hopes, not premature optimization

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Design as, one hopes, not premature optimization
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:33:17 -0700
• Cc: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> of "Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:38:25 EST." <5.2.0.9.0.20030402172838.011580a8@n...>
• Sender: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

"Design is a kind of optimization, as Tommie Usdin likes to point out"

Hah.  Interesting way to put it, and quite true, but since design is typically 
the first step in development, does this cause a collision of aphorisms with 
the accepted wisdom that premature optimization is evil?


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
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