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naive
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adj. 1. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system;
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one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right
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way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't really
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good in the appropriate sense). This trait is completely unrelated to
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general maturity or competence, or even competence at any other specific
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program. It is a sad commentary on the primitive state of computing that the
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natural opposite of this term is often claimed to be experienced user but is
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really more like cynical user. 2. Said of an algorithm that doesn't take
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advantage of some superior but advanced technique, e.g., the bubble sort. It
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may imply naivete on the part of the programmer, although there are
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situations where a naive algorithm is preferred, because it is more
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important to keep the code comprehensible than to go for maximum
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performance. I know the linear search is naive, but in this case the list
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typically only has half a dozen items. Compare brute force.
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