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> Reminds me of this statement by Brian W. Kernighan, "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cl
by _pmf_ 12y ago
> Reminds me of this statement by Brian W. Kernighan, "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
A corollary is that if you are writing code with minimum repetition, you are effectively a compression algorithm, not a programmer.
- delian66 12y ago> A corollary is that if you are writing code with minimum repetition, you are effectively a compression algorithm, not a programmer. I do not understand why that follows. Can you elaborate, please ?