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Schneier's law of software?

Schneier's law of software?

Posted Jul 22, 2012 4:40 UTC (Sun) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: This isn't new by nix
Parent article: Left by Rawhide

Sounds as if we have a programming equivalent of Schneier's Law:

Any programmer can write a program so good he can't find any bugs in it.

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Schneier's law of software?

Posted Jul 23, 2012 17:45 UTC (Mon) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link]

It pretty much already exists, and long predates Schneier's:
"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?"

-- Brian Kernighan, "The Elements of Programming Style"


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