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With enough practice, any interface is intuitive.
One person's data is another person's program.
Hindsight is an exact science.
There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Proverb
More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. The thinking that must be done to create a useful test can discover and eliminate bugs before they are coded - indeed, test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest.
Software Testing Techniques
Creating a Software Engineering Culture by Karl Eugene Wiegers
ISBN: 0932633331 Page: 211 This book is available from Amazon
Lacking any objective measure, we often judge how difficult a program is by how hard a programmer works on it. Using this sort of measure, we can easily fall into believing that the worst programmers are the best - because they work so hard at it. A case in point was a programmer who work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, for eight weeks to get a small program running in a new installation. For his efforts, his company gave him an award for exceptional service. Shortly thereafter, another programmer was given the job of making some additions to this program. He found that the program was such a confusing mess that it was easier to rewrite it that to try and modify it.
The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition by Gerald M. Weinberg
ISBN: 0932633420 Page: 165, Chapter 9 This book is available from Amazon
Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
