is laziness a programer's virtue?

[Dan Bensen]

Xah Lee wrote:
> Laziness, Perl, and Larry Wall
> When the sorcerer Larry Wall said “The three chief virtues of a
> programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris”, he used the word
> “laziness” to loosely imply “natural disposition that results in being
> economic”.

Programming by definition is the process of automating repetitive 
actions to reduce the human effort required to perform them.  A good 
programmer faced with a hard problem always looks for ways to make 
his|her job easier by delegating work to a computer.  That's what Larry 
means.  Automation is MUCH more effective than repetition.

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Dan
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