Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2006-12-07, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The same reason you can sometimes find what's wrong just by > > explaining the symptoms to another guy... Having to put things > > sorted and simple to understand by another, just makes you think > > clearly on the problem... > > I read a story (was it by Brian Kernighan?) the they required > programmers to tell their problem to a stuffed animal first before > bothering another programmer who might be in the middle of > something. The stuffed animal often provided all the assistance that > was needed.
This is now known as "rubber ducking", and it was indeed documented in "The Pragmatic Programmer", a highly recommended tome. <URL:http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking> -- \ "Even if the voices in my head are not real, they have pretty | `\ good ideas." -- Anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list