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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:34:37 +0000 (UTC)
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Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> wrote:

(snip)
> There's a quote by Brian Kernighan that ???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, by definition, not smart enough to
> debug it.???

I believe one of Brooks' laws goes something like:

  "Writing the program takes the first 90% of the time,
   debugging the second 90%."

So, according to that it takes the same amount of time, but nine
times as long as you thought it would. (Based on his experience
with OS/360.)

-- glen