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by ethbro 2964 days ago
Obligatory Dijkstra: "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."
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That's actually Brian Kernighan. Dijkstra would have never advocated debugging to begin with.