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Also, Kernighan's Law: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, b
by auntienomen 10y ago
Also, Kernighan's Law: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
- atemerev 10y agoWas bitten many times by this one while coding stuff in Scala.
- enriquto 10y agoNotice that this can be interpreted in two ways. The hacker's interpretation is that, if you want to improve your smarts then you have to code as cleverly as possible, otherwise you cannot learn anything when debugging! This is called kernighan's lever: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/ http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThis is perfect! I've never heard of that interpretation before. Thanks for sharing!