Subj : Re: Fwd: Rhino, Changes to JavaMembers.java
To   : Attila Szegedi
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri Feb 25 2005 10:04 am

Attila Szegedi wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:37:31 -0800, Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net> wrote:
> 
>> Premature optimization is the root of all evil (Djikstra?).
> 
> 
> Nah, it was C. A. R. Hoare. The quote is also often misattributed to 
> Knuth  as he quoted Hoare in one of his papers, "Errors of TeX".


Thanks, I remember now.

Where have all the CS greats gone?  Knuth is writing letters by hand 
now, I hear, and shunning email as a horrible time sink he can't afford 
in what time he has left.

/be

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