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False Laziness
One of the three virtues of programming is Laziness. Beware of false laziness. Andy Lester writes on the problem aptly when he describes an interaction with another programmer:
This person was one of those programmers who tried for the premature optimization of saving some typing. He forgot that typing is the least of our concerns when programming. He forgot that programmer thinking time costs many orders of magnitude more than programmer typing time, and that the time spent debugging can dwarf the amount of time spent creating code.
File under projects/ Thu Dec 23 03:40:32 CT 2010