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There Has Been A Long History Of Optimizing The Wrong Thing
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There has been a long history of optimizing the wrong things, using elaborate
mechanisms to produce beautiful code in cases that hardly ever arise in
practice, while doing nothing about frequently occurring situations.
-- Donald Knuth
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TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently.
Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth....
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth