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- 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,…
- Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
- Don't document bad code - rewrite it.
- Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it…
- An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries
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