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#35 The Pattern of Design Patterns

Happy Path Programming

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The Importance of Efficiency in Functional Programming

There's a kind of always this constant balance happening between allowing the developer to be expressive and not have to think about efficiency. Do we think about efficiency at that point, or not? I haven't gotten there yet. Oh, pretty much always has been. Yeah. And so I would learn to trust pythons, like do the simplest thing. It's almost always going to be the fastest. Then, and likely sufficient for what you need.

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