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Comment by pdmccormick | Hacker News Reader

There is a great quote from Terence Parr, creator of the ANTLR parser generator:

     Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life automating?

See https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Automation-DSL/

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What the xkcd chart misses is that if you can get a hundred people to use your code, the payback curve is a lot more forgiving. Parr only needs 366 customers for the universe to balance out, and that’s only if you didn’t grow as a person as part of doing that work.

I don’t do volunteer work for myself. I do, but also I don’t.

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