Deputy Sheriff The Viking Programmer
I must say, this has been me a lot for the last many years. I'm almost to the point of just having a Forth OS over some basic hardware, doing wireless drivers for IRC and using bridges, using ham radio for local coms and just shutting off access to the modern…
Re: you can actually get a lot done with a lawn tractor i.e a riding lawn mower if you remove the deck.
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Completely true though. By the history of a definition of a (software) "bug", a bug really did creep up into the system unnoticeably. But the modern software we write isn't getting infested with bugs - it is infested with programmer's errors and he is fully responsible for them. He ought to do his best and use appropriate tools for the purpose.
At the time of writing this I remembered another quote of Dijkstra: "If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in". Bugs are not creeping up to the codebase - we are putting them in.
At the time of writing this I remembered another quote of Dijkstra: "If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in". Bugs are not creeping up to the codebase - we are putting them in.
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