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Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) by quantadev on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:08AM (#42219305)
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.

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Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) by mech422 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:26AM (#42219490)
Larry Wall would agree :-D
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Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) by gmac on Saturday November 23, 2024 @05:02AM (#42220159)
https://thethreevirtues.com/
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Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) by mech422 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @10:10AM (#42221299)
Yeah ... the Camel book was awesome. I remember being amazed how fast it got you writing really useful perl scripts.
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Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) by zimpenfish on Saturday November 23, 2024 @03:48AM (#42219862)
> 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.)

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