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What makes sense is that the number of bugs tends to end up proportional with the amount of code... If a powerful language allows you do the same thing with 10

by nnq 7y ago

What makes sense is that the number of bugs tends to end up proportional with the amount of code... If a powerful language allows you do the same thing with 10x less code, you'll also have up to 10x fewer bugs (in practice maybe only 2x fewer, but that would still be huge).

codegladiator 7y ago
> the number of bugs tends to end up proportional with the amount of code This happens when the original code was clever to begin with and someone (else) came try to fix an edge case and lo and behold.