The Three Virtues of a Great Programmer
Larry Wall identifies three key virtues of a great programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. Laziness drives programmers to create efficient solutions that save time and effort. Impatience leads to the development of proactive programs, while Hubris encourages the creation of high-quality code that withstands criticism.
- ▪Laziness encourages programmers to create labor-saving solutions.
- ▪Impatience motivates programmers to develop anticipatory software.
- ▪Hubris inspires programmers to maintain high standards in their work.
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Three Virtues According to Larry Wall(1), the original author of the Perl programming language, there are three great virtues of a programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Impatience: The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hubris: The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about.
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