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BayesPulse / pulsatile

Package for developing the UI for libpulsatile - Bayesian deconvolution analysis for pulsatile hormone data in R
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Guiding principle during this rebuild #23

Open mmulvahill opened 7 years ago

mmulvahill commented 7 years ago

In DonaldKnuth's paper "StructuredProgrammingWithGoToStatements", he wrote: "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass upour opportunities in that critical 3%