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On 10/27/2010 06:07 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
> That depends on the measure. In working hours per week? Wouldn't you prefer
> a lazy Ada programmer, who completes the project before the schedule and
> spends the rest of the time on the beach, to a C programmer enjoying
> 16-hours-per-day marathons of patching bug-ridden mess he wrote?

There's an old saying: The hard worker buckles down and does what is needed to 
get the job done. The lazy worker figures out a way to do the job with less 
effort. So all progress is due to the lazy worker.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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