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You missed the point of the article.

• Terr_ 2y ago
  What is it that you believe they missed? People have writing code in a certain way to provide logical "breadcrumbs" for a very long time, and doing it very deliberately. The fact that a tool was created that takes advantage of that isn't an "accident." Compare to: "Correctly-spelled words as accidental hyperlinks to the dictionary definition."
  • djmips 2y ago
    They missed that many programmers sometimes especially experienced ones like to write code that's very clever and packs a lot into one line of code to the detriment of debugging, often by others who may just be trying to reverse engineer what someone who left wrote.
• vanschelven 2y ago
  > If you have potentially a problematic computation, put it in a variable and log it out My point was: what a "potentially problematic" computation is is not always known in advance. A style which is rich in local variables, when combined with a tool that shows actual values for all local variables when unhandled exceptions occur gives you this "for free". I.e. no need to log anything.