Tag archive for “Bugs”
“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.”
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”
“As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”
The road to wisdom? — Well, it’s plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”
“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.”
“Don’t keep “trying” solutions until you find one that works. Take the time to find the correct solution.”
“Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.”
“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”