It's very true in my case. I have a bad habit of getting lost in the details, or gold-plating things. I will spend hours working on a sub-routine when the rest of the program is still non-func. I'll spend ages tracking down a reference for an assignment I'm doing. And I never quite manage to clean my room before I encounter something that holds my attention for a couple of hours.

Uh... I guess you were probably looking for more positive traits.

I do plan everything I do before I do it. My friends have commented on it, since it infuriates them when they 'just want to get to work'. So in your case I'd probably stand around trying to figure out how to sand a door using the least number of strokes with the sandpaper, or the optimal way to move from door to door using the least number of steps overall. And then get sidetracked somehow.

Actually, that's sounding really obsessive now that I read over it. Oh well, you did ask...

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Jeremy

In reply to RE: Life and programming practices by jepri
in thread Life and programming practices by KM

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