Tim_Tyler comments on A Genius for Destruction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 02 August 2008 08:13:46AM 1 point [-]

Re: the debugging quote is silly

The original quote seems sensible enough:

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 Kernighan

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