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kwall
Mon May 17 11:41:35 PDT 2004
Feigning erudition, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
% kwall at kurtwerks.com <mailto:kwall at kurtwerks.com> typed thusly on Thursday,
% December 12, 2002 4:37 PM:
%
% > I think that would be "a programmer". ;-)~
%
% Oh, but Kurt, the first rule of programming is to not re-invent the wheel.
I completely agree. I've got plenty of reinvented wheels around here,
that's for sure.
% If someone has already written a nice YACC program that will do the job, why
% should I? Now, if I were a consultant... ;-}>
If you were a consultant, you wouldn't have to work for a living. Or, in
the case at hand, you'd *still* use someone else's tool, but charge for
time as if you'd written it from scratch using your own 1s and 0s. ;-)
Kurt
--
The First Rule of Program Optimization:
Don't do it.
The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!):
Don't do it yet.
-- Michael Jackson
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