Comment by jluxenberg
16 years ago
"to say that someone uses the phrase particularly well is really just an underhanded way of saying that they’re particularly good at being lazy"
Larry Wall counts laziness as one of the key "great virtues of a programmer" http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
That would be a different kind of laziness. In one case you're looking at someone, that given a task, actively searches for a way to accomplish it optimally. In the other, it turns out, you're looking at someone completely going around the task, redefining it.
The result is not the same. But if it is interchangeable, that makes for a useful trait indeed. We call it «hacking».