Maybe in the sense that he did not bother to become an expert in optimizing the manual process but decided to circumvent it altogether. As for indolence - make

Maybe in the sense that he did not bother to become an expert in optimizing the manual process but decided to circumvent it altogether. As for indolence - makes me thing of ESR's sentence in the "Art of UNIX Programming": "Constructive laziness is one of the cardinal virtues of the master programmer."