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Kernighan's Lever


lever Brian Kernighan famously wrote: 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? — The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition, chapter 2 The following version also circulates on the net: Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.

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