If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the p

If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. Wow, some things never change ;-)