Resources to learn C

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Sun Apr 5 00:12:17 UTC 2009


On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> 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. - Brian W. Kernighan

The second sentence is incorrect.
"by definition" != "by premise".
That said, the first sentence is still important.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."




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