Re: number of bugs
Re: number of bugs
- Subject: Re: number of bugs
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:56:38 -0500
On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 21:39 US/Eastern, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
As for whether programmers are supposed to be lazy, the readership have
successfully demonstrated the problem with using a derogatory word in a
new, positive light -- it is good market-speak, but it obfuscates
language.
Not at all. It's terrible market-speak, because the word carries
generally negative connotations outside certain subsets of the
technical community.
"Lazy" does not mean doing less total work to the benefit of
all (despite contradictory usage to the contrary),
True.
it means avoiding
doing a job right the first time and having to do it over again later,
or, worse, in hopes that someone else will do it for you.
False. Lazy means "predisposed to avoid work." If you're dumb-lazy, you
end up with the situation you describe. If you're smart-lazy, you
recognize that being dumb-lazy is actually going to be likely to
increase your work and don't fall into that trap. But it's still lazy.
G
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