On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Alex Vincent <ajvinc...@gmail.com> quoted:
> > -- > "The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is > confirming there are no bugs in your own." > -- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001 > I rarely comment on these incidental aphorisms, but this one is so wrong that it is worth pointing out. You can confirm the existence of many bugs by * demonstration via failing test case, * finding the bug, * having a plausible explanation for why it is incorrect, * writing a fix with a plausible explanation for why it fixes the problem, and * demonstrating that the fix repairs the demonstrated test case. However hard this is, it is vastly easier than confirming that there are no bugs in your own code. -- Cheers, --MarkM
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