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Where have the universities gone?

Posted Jul 26, 2007 0:28 UTC (Thu) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462)
In reply to: Where have the universities gone? by jmoellers
Parent article: Where have the universities gone?

Surely you're referring to The Mother Of All Debuggers: printf. I still shake my head when I fire up a GNOME app from the command line and see all the debug spam that splashes on my terminal.


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Where have the universities gone?

Posted Jul 26, 2007 6:51 UTC (Thu) by jmoellers (subscriber, #29863) [Link]

> Surely you're referring to The Mother Of All Debuggers: printf

No, I'm not. I'm referring to the Mother Of All Debuggers: Brains(tm).
Too much software is written without it, too much software is produced without thoroughly thinking before writing and then it is tested and debugged into some semi-final state before being shipped.

I do agree that debugging is necessary in certain cases, but putting it first is like requiring every car owner to have a fully equipped garage.

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