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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
I wonder just how deep the sinking feeling was when this realization hit:
"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. We had to discover debugging. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
-- Maurice Wilkes, 1949