Premature generalization is the root of all premature optimization. Premature specialization is the root of all other premature optimization. The remainder is speeding up code you haven't put through a profiler, and what's left is functionality the user didn't need.
I don't know if it'll ever see daylight, but my working title is "The Largest Number: a Journey into Finity." And it turns out that for expressing some computable functions, Haskell is far, far more concise and readable than Python, go figure.
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But most of that is old leftover wisdom from previous software projects, not something I was doing right then. It just triggered the thought.
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