Akin to "Analyze theories before acting on them", my first rule of debugging is "There is always a reason - understand it completely". A large part of my judge

Akin to "Analyze theories before acting on them", my first rule of debugging is "There is always a reason - understand it completely". A large part of my judgement of fellow programmers depends on whether they are satisfied by fixing the symptom, or insist on understanding exactly what was going on to cause it.