RE: [xml-dev] Design as, one hopes, not premature optimization

[Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@creo.com>]

> From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]
> "Design is a kind of optimization, as Tommie Usdin likes to point out"
> 
> Hah.  Interesting way to put it, and quite true, but since 
> design is typically 
> the first step in development, does this cause a collision of 
> aphorisms with 
> the accepted wisdom that premature optimization is evil?

I believe implementation is the last step of design, and optimization comes
after that.