🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <93021.154835U35395@uicvm.uic.edu>, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
<U35395@uicvm.uic.edu> wrote:
> 
> If you wanted to write it in Pascal, why didn't you just compile it
> in Pascal?  Heiner's program may well run longer than yours.  On the
> other hand it is shorter, and much easier to see that it is correct.
> Since my machines spend far more time waiting for my keystrokes than
> they do working, I see no reason to worry about making code run faster
> unless it is now running too slow.  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?
> 
> -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
>  University of Illinois at Chicago

I am not particularly worried about the performance of Heiner's program (it
is lousy, but this is no immediate concern to a beginner).  It seemed to me
that Mike's original posting was asking for some guidance, not a quick
hack.  Quite simply, if you want to develop from a Prolog beginner into a
proficient Prolog programmer, then you will spend your time studying good
code.

-- John Hamer                           Email: J_Hamer@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
-- Department of Computer Science
-- University of Auckland, New Zealand.