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"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." -- LarryWall, ProgrammingPerl
[url= http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris ]LINKY[/url]
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I'm too lazy to reply, too impatient to read it all, and proud of it 🙂
Sounds about right to me! I've got the laziness and impatience down but lack the hubris.
That's a website that only programmers get, right? I mean, I've earned a lot of money programming in the past but it's clear why I could never hack (sic) it with you guys.
I think as some level you have to be a bit of a cock to imagine that you can do a better job at designing and coding than the other guy, puff yourself up a bit ... programming is kinda intellectually macho.
I am very lazy indeed.
Sadly, I'm too patient.
*Yawn*
I spent hours today documenting my own code after leaving it for a week and forgetting how it worked. ****in' Java.
Time I got a new job
Sounds like something Jeff Atwood would link to. In fact I had to check to see if he had.
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I have to agree they are useful traits for a programmer but there are many others too.
I spent hours today documenting code
... ?!
you can tell its about perl because the web site is pretty much in plain text
its all bullshit to sell books and conference places