Debugging Clever Code

April 11, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

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.

From Brian Kernighan, quoted by Joe Maller via Debugging Clever Code.

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programming, web2.0

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