Friday, November 21, 2014

Fortune Quote #840

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't
as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be
discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large
part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in
my own programs. -- Maurice Wilkes, designer of EDSAC, on
programming, 1949

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