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If I recall my Camel Book correctly, Larry Wall called what the article describes as "False Laziness". Copy-and-pasting code will save you time in the short ter
by weavejester 18y ago
If I recall my Camel Book correctly, Larry Wall called what the article describes as "False Laziness". Copy-and-pasting code will save you time in the short term, but probably cost you time in the long term. If laziness is about minimizing effort, then a truely lazy person will take the time to do things correctly so that he or she has less to do later on.
- sethg 18y agoYou beat me to it. The Camel Book's examples of "false laziness", "false impatience", and "false hubris" are quoted here: http://blog.nix.is/perl-book-mini-reviews http://blog.nix.is/perl-book-mini-reviews
- scott_s 18y agoThe problem is that what Wall calls "false laziness" is what the rest of the English speaking world calls "laziness."