Lazy programmers, was: Need Some RPG Technical Questions -- RPG400-L

Subject: Lazy programmers, was: Need Some RPG Technical Questions
From: Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:48:38 -0400
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Eduard Sluis wrote:

Because our type of Laziness is not caring about waisting a lot of time in creating nice functionality but really hating to have to look after-wards again to the same thing and not even start thinking of doing the same again and again.
I'm very Lazy indeed.

Indeed, laziness is considered by many to be a virtue in programmers:
http://www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html

I think it applies to any language, not just Perl. For those who don't know, Larry Wall is one of the creators of the Perl language.

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