Subject: Re: Not debugging? (was: How much should I charge for fixed-price ...)
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 05:31:11 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <s92dnSFFo-1yAJDeRVn-3w@speakeasy.net>
Roedy Green  <look-on@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
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| Debugging is fun. Programs behave strangely.  You get to perform
| experiments, make hypotheses, and gradually track down the problem. It
| is like an Ruth Rendell mystery novel.
| 
| Debugging is far more entertaining than cranking out code that works
| first time.  I think people are sometimes unconsciously careless just
| to gives themselves that challenge later.
| 
| This may also be the root of why programmers are so reluctant to use
| any sort of tools that accelerate, automate or check programming.
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This is why Tom De Marco suggests that to make any progress on software
quality one needs to change from talking about "bugs" to talking about
"defects". "Bugs" are cute; "defects" are at best... embarrassing.


-Rob

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