At 5/14/2009 09:00 AM, you wrote: >30 years of experience has provided me with the knowledge that it is >efficient and optimum. It is not guessing.
I, too, have been programming for over 35 years, though not as a professional software engineer. One thing I have found is that compiler technology has come a very long way. With older compilers, things that a programmer had to do manually say, 20 years ago, are now done automatically by the modern compilers -- and sometimes even more efficiently. If you work with embedded or real-time systems, hand-coding may still be important. But for the average program, I tend to use best practices and let the compiler do its' job, too. I'm not picking on anyone here -- just providing another point of view. ~Rick
