Kernighan on Programming

via news.ycombinator.com

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“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” This has been a timely PSA. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857444 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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