Comments on: Hand Coding http://blog.thetonk.com/archives/hand-coding Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Frank http://blog.thetonk.com/archives/hand-coding/comment-page-1#comment-366 Frank Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:36:37 +0000 http://blog.thetonk.com/?p=602#comment-366 The takeaway for me here is affirmation of what I always believed: abstraction = assumptions = poor code The clutch quote comes from Herb Sutter: "Optimizations will get very, very sexy again, when people realize how we pay for abstractions." Any programmer worth his salt knows the less crap you put between your raw output and a working program, the better it will work. The nonsense about the end of Moore's Law in 10 years is total bunk, though. Market forces and human ingenuity can push the size/speed barrier indefinitely. The takeaway for me here is affirmation of what I always believed:

abstraction = assumptions = poor code

The clutch quote comes from Herb Sutter: “Optimizations will get very, very sexy again, when people realize how we pay for abstractions.”

Any programmer worth his salt knows the less crap you put between your raw output and a working program, the better it will work.

The nonsense about the end of Moore’s Law in 10 years is total bunk, though. Market forces and human ingenuity can push the size/speed barrier indefinitely.

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