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“ After coding, benchmarking and writing “HyperParser” all over his notepad with lightning bolts all around it, he’d never actually looked at the output. He found the bug quickly, fixed it and noticed another bug. His main loop had no code in it. He’d tested the speed of HTML::Parser against the speed of doing absolutely nothing. By that standard, his code was efficient, but not terribly practical. The elation of annihilating HTML::Parser’s speed was short-lived when Stephen benchmarked his corrected code. Another 6 seconds. And HyperParser? He gave up after 5 minutes. Calling the thing “HyperParser” was like putting flame decals on a Geo Metro. […] The founder learned from the experience, too. He’d put too much faith in a junior developer, wasting time and money on a module that would’ve been more of burden than help. Calling an inexperienced programmer “Senior Programmer” doesn’t make it so.
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