[Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:14:09PM +0100, ls-haskell-developer-2006 at m-e-leypold.de wrote:
> 
> Tomasz Zielonka <tomasz.zielonka at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Anyway, don't concentrate on this particular example. All I say is that:
> > - sometimes I get efficient programs in Haskell right away (I my case
> >   quite often, but YMMV)
> > - sometimes efficiency doesn't matter
> > I don't think it is contradictory, especially because the two
> > "sometimes" can have a non-empty symmetric difference.
> 
> ... speed/efficiency ...
> 
> ... optimize.
> 
> ... fast ... faster...  optimize
> 
> unoptimized ... fast ...
> 
> optimize...
> 
> ... optimize ...

I think it's high time to remind the very true Hoare's words:
    "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming"
It's strange nobody mentioned it earlier.

Best regards
Tomasz