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by 908B64B197 1899 days ago
>> A lazy programmer stares at the code for hours, trying to figure out the way to write as little code as possible.

It's easy to write a lot of code really fast. Then bolt in on an existing application and write as much code doing the bolting as you wrote initially.

Reading a lot means getting an understanding of what you are about to extend, figuring out the best way of doing it and what's already provided by the application.