Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
by quantadev on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:08AM
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I've said in the past "The best developers are the laziest ones". We don't want to do a bit of unnecessary work at all.
But at the same time since I spend almost ever waking hour of my spare time coding, the word lazy still isn't quite accurate in every way either.
Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
by mech422 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:26AM
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Larry Wall would agree :-D
Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
by mech422 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @10:10AM
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Yeah ... the Camel book was awesome. I remember being amazed how fast it got you writing really useful perl scripts.
Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
by zimpenfish on Saturday November 23, 2024 @03:48AM
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> the word lazy still isn't quite accurate in every way either.
I take it in its form from "lazy loading" - "don't do it until absolutely necessary" (which kinda devolves into YAGNI.)
This is true; but after enough years in the industry you learn to correlate success with laziness. This is well-discussed and arguably obvious but on an emotional level it takes a long time to fully sink in. We were all once developers with outsized ambitions and awareness we can flee to greener pastures.