Shubhadeep Roychowdhury
08/12/2020, 8:39 PMKartik Agaram
08/12/2020, 9:33 PMThis was originally attributed to Tony Hoare, but tracking down the origin of this quote I found that it was actually Knuth who said it first. Although Knuth did call it "Hoare's dictum" 15 years later, Hoare himself disclaimed it. See http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimization-is-the-root-of-all-evilhttps://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization
Chris Maughan
08/13/2020, 6:30 AMShubhadeep Roychowdhury
08/13/2020, 7:50 AM