Re: Help !!

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From: Wayne Citrin
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:38

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In article <93021.154835U35395@uicvm.uic.edu> C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>Sufficient unto the day is the
>evil thereof; why should I worry about trivial 'inefficiencies' like
>those you see in Heiner's code, until they are making my work
>unacceptably slow?
>

Because some of us do write large Prolog programs that depend on efficiency,
and it's better to instill good programming habits from the beginning than to
overcome bad programming practice later on.  Besides, I don't believe that
Heiner's program is any cleaner: why should the largest item encountered so
far be placed at the beginning of the list at the next iteration?  That seems
entirely artificial.  Why _not_ keep the largest value seen so far as a 
separate quantity?

Wayne

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Wayne Citrin   citrin@soglio.colorado.edu   citrin@cs.colorado.edu

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