On 2013-06-21 21:11, Walter Bright wrote:
I've been around long enough to have seen an endless parade of magic new techniques du jour, most of which purport to remove the necessity of thought about your programming problem.
One needs to be opened minded and be able to try new things.
But there is one technique that stands head and shoulders above the others in improving code quality, sometimes dramatically so. That's unit testing coupled with a coverage analyzer.
I can imagine that these techniques have been new at some point in time as well. It's possible that a new technique comes a long that help you as much as these techniques do.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
