Cleverness in Programming
Posted by Doug Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:46:00 GMT
I just heard someone explain Kernighan’s Law:Debugging is twice as hard as writing the program, so if you write the program as cleverly as you can, by definition, you won’t be clever enough to debug it.I hadn’t heard it phrased quite that explicitly. I have always said that when I code something particularly clever I usually throw it out. I think I got that tip from one of Kernighan’s books.
