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On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:54:28AM +0000, Greg Comeau wrote:
>=20
> Some more food for thought:
>=20
> "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,
>   definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
>=20

With a caveat: when one is really clever, one finds "the shortest path
to the truth" i.e. the simplicity; this means that really clever guys
make programs easy to debug because these are the simplest ones doing
the job.

In Brian Kernighan's sentence, s/cleverly/sophisticatedly/ (this is
probably a barbarism, but in french "sophistiqu=E9" is pejorative:
obfuscation, convoluted etc.).
--=20
        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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