Lazy

The laziness of engineers has always been one of the biggest driver in computer science. Here is a quote¹ by John Backus the father of FORTRAN — the daddy of modern programming languages .

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn’t like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

By the way Lazy loading is a well know programming technique.