Re: Valid C++?
mlimber wrote:
[..] As Kernighan's Law states:
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the program, so if you write
the program as cleverly as you can, by definition, you won't be clever
enough to debug it."
Kerhighan cheated here. "Hard" does not necessarily mean "impossible
to comprehend", simply "more effort required". The second part ought
to be ".. so if you strain yourself to the limit writing the program,
by definition, you won't have enough resources to debug it."
I often have to debug programs that aren't really written in a clever
way by any stretch of the meaning. But it's hard nonetheless. Which
brings out another side of the coin: sometimes if one writes a program
as cleverly as one can, it's quite hard for *somebody else* to debug.
Regardless of the relative abilities of those two people, BTW. And yet
another point in the same discussion: often the most difficult programs
to debug are the ones written applying almost no brain whatsoever.
V
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