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From: "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm>
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Subject: Re: The magical number seven
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:21:03 -0400
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:47:33 -0400, Elizabeth D. Rather  
<erather@forth.com> wrote:

> To me, "slash and burn" just means throwing code at a problem without  
> careful thought and design.

Some problems may be too difficult to comprehend or easily quantify.
In that case, "shotgunning" can be very effective in narrowing
the scope of the problem to something manageable, solveable,
or identifiable.  It's especially useful in debugging.


Rod Pemberton