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dgb23
on July 5, 2023
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Functions and algorithms implemented purely with T...
"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?"
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klysm
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So if I work hard to make a program really easy to debug, then I’m making it harder to debug?
dgb23
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I think the term "clever" is used to describe unnecessary complexity and indirection, which makes the code harder to debug.
I agree with the notion that simplicity is hard though.
teo_zero
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Easy: I'll invest the same effort but for the double of time.
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