Comes from the perspective of the author, see the note: > This paper is not meant for grading programmers [...] This paper was written to force its author to t

Comes from the perspective of the author, see the note: > This paper is not meant for grading programmers [...] This paper was written to force its author to think, and published because he thinks you lot would probably get a kick out of it, too. The intent of that remedy is to wean the programmer off of using a debugger and to executing the code mentally.