Re: Converting Case with a Varying Field

Sorry to disagree with you, as I do greatly respect your opinion, but
processing efficiency ALWAYS trumps programmer efficiency. Any extra (read
unnecessary) code is less efficient. The problem with most programmers
(besides laziness) is that they usually don't look at the big picture,
which is the code running in many jobs and possibly being called millions
of times in a day. That "possibly negligible" amount of extra processing
adds up in a hurry. Our production system does a lot of work (we wrap the
job number every two to three days), so we need to remove inefficiency
wherever we can.

It seems to me that however "very very fast" the bound calls are, calling
the API directly is still faster. And that's the bottom line. Teaching
programmers to value programmer efficiency over processing efficiency is a
huge mistake.