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"I assume that it is going to be at least twice as hard to understand the code in the debugger as it was to write it, so I try to write it using half my availab
by ozim 12y ago
"I assume that it is going to be at least twice as hard to understand the code in the debugger as it was to write it, so I try to write it using half my available cleverness." - real gem for me, I'd like more people not to rise to their maximum level of cleverness while writing code, so they can easier debug things.
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- binarycrusader 12y agoWhich I believe is originally a quote from Brian Kernighan: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? The quote attribution I found indicated that it was from "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, Chapter 2. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan