The Virtue of Laziness in Programming: How Larry Wall's Philosophy Drives Good Software Design

Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris

I have always found laziness to be the most profound: packed within its tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation is a commentary on not just the need for abstraction, but the aesthetics of it

Laziness drives us to make the system as simple as possible (but no simpler!) — to develop the powerful abstractions

If we're going to talk about good software design, we have to talk about Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, the basis of good software design

Generally, though, most of us need to think about using more abstraction rather than less