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by i386 4862 days ago
Well you should use a framework not because you are lazy but because there are a million other actually important things you should be doing than implementing state for HTTP for the billionth time.
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Potato potato.

You are a 'glass-half-empty' interpreter of the word 'lazy'.

Easy syntax, DRY, etc. are things that are good because they limit you to waste time on trivial things, like you said. They stop you from reinventing the wheel.

I call that (positive) laziness. You can call it whatever you want of course. It still boils down to the same thing.

I have worked at places where programmers were willing to write thousands of lines of code, often copy-pasting big chunks and just replacing a few variable names. Needless to say, I didn't want to work there for very long. There is often no way to convince those kinds of programmers to stop and think about logic or technical design. They feel that they could just as easily write a few hundred lines again and again. Me, and my others, feel that you shouldn't repeat yourself in code and should limit your day-to-day efforts by writing reusable code, etc, etc. I don't need to tell you of course.

Do you mean PHP languague ?