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Why "unreasonable"? There's nothing unreasonable nor wrong about print debugging. Moreover, it's a great first step towards logging and testing.
by enriquto 6y ago
Why "unreasonable"? There's nothing unreasonable nor wrong about print debugging. Moreover, it's a great first step towards logging and testing.
- xnx 6y ago"Unreasonable" here means that it works way better than it should for something so simple. It's a somewhat common phrasing. Example: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/35179.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
- falcolas 6y agoIt’s “unreasonably effective”, meaning that a cost/benefit analysis is very clearly tilted towards benefit.
- elseweather 6y agoIt's a meme, like "_____ Considered Harmful". That one started with "GOTO Considered Harmful". This one started with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...