On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, at 02:28 PM, Karin Lagesen wrote: > > ...is there some statistics on this? I think that errors would be a lot > less scary if we could show how much of their time even those that code > for a living spend on debugging their code. >
Poking around on programmers.stackexchange, 50% shows up as a common estimate of how much 'programming' effort is actually directed at debugging. That actually seems low to me: I can generate bugs way faster than I can find them! http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/91764/60644 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
