Harmful GOTOs, Premature Optimizations and Programming Myths (...) - Alvaro Videla

Harmful GOTOs, Premature Optimizations and Programming Myths are The Root of All Evil - Alvaro Videla

Over the years our industry has accumulated folklore that shapes what we are as an industry. We repeat maxims like "Premature optimisation is the root of all evil" but perhaps ignoring the context on which that sentence was said. This ignorance has lead us to creating myths that sometimes do more harm than good.

In this talk I will review some of those myths, see their origin and at the same time make a historical review of what was going on in our industry in the '70s, when those myths appeared.

As the old saying goes: _Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it_

Talk objectives:

- Promote a culture of reading more books, academic papers and related material that refers to the history of our field and programming in general.

Talk audience:

- From beginners to experts. No special knowledge is required to attend the talk.

About Alvaro

[cygil]

This is rambling and pointless and seems to be nothing more than a desperate attempt to defend PHP. Sorry Alvaro, that horse has bolted. Strange talk to give to Erlang users, who have embraced the anti-goto pro-lambda doctrine in its fullness.