On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Alex Vincent <[email protected]> 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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