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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Brian Kernighan - The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition, chapter 2