Procrastination 36

Posted by tottinger Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:11:46 GMT

I serendipitously received two things today. One was a link to an article on procrastination and the other was an email about YAGNI. It took me a moment or two to realise that they are talking about the same thing. In the procrastination case, it’s seen in a more negative light, and in the YAGNI case it’s exalted.

The phrase from the procrastination article that really hit me was that procrastinators “value today more than tomorrow.” That’s what Agile is like, too.

Maybe Agile is partly about creative, productive procrastination?

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    Nathan Henkel about 3 hours later:

    My first CS course had an entire section of the course dedicated to “Lazy Programming” where lazy programming was considered to be a good thing. The professor did clarify that what we are after is “productive” laziness, but this “productive” laziness sure does share a lot in common with ordinary laziness.

    In general, as programmers, we’re best when we’re lazy procrastinators-when we’re so lazy we won’t even sit down and work through our own tests-we automate them. We’re so lazy we won’t sit down with a copy of Effective C++ and read through our code for violations—we create or use automated tools that check for us.

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    YAChris about 4 hours later:

    See, of course, Larry Wall’s great rant about how the three most important attributes of a programmer are laziness, hubris and impatience. Of course, he goes on and makes it better by defining what false laziness, false hubris and false impatience are.

    It’s certainly in the Perl 5 reference, probably elsewhere.

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