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by Mavyrk 5209 days ago
A 'lazier programmer' who actually checked the optimization of various factorial methods?

There's a joke in there somewhere...
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BasDirks 5209 days ago
Well, he only bothered to check three of them.
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lani 5209 days ago
a lazy programmer is one who will write a shell script in an hour to generate three lines of boilerplate...
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prakashk 5208 days ago
It's worth it, if you have to type the boilerplate code hundreds of times. Consider the time wasted in debugging errors due to typos etc. It's even more worth if that shell script (or, in my case an emacs yasnippet) is parameterized.
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