On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Richard Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > "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." (Brian W. Kernighan > and P. J. Plauger in The Elements of Programming Style.) [1] > > [1] http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming
I've always hated this quote. Debugging is simply not that hard, nor is complexity that unmanageable. This isn't to say that *needless* complexity is fine, just that we all write code that is beyond our ability to completely understand (or we wouldn't have bugs in the first place!). -- ~jrm _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
