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Programmer’s Point: Great Programmers debug less I am not impressed by hacking programmers who spend whole days at terminals fighting with enormous programs and debugging them into shape. I am impressed by someone who turns up, types in the program and makes it work first time!
interesting and valid point of view
Something else which you should bear in mind is that a program will not always detect when you exceed the range of a variable. If I put the value 255 into a variable of type byte this is OK, because 255 is the biggest possible value of the type can hold. However, if I add one to the value in this variable the system may not detect this as an error. In fact this may cause the value to "wrap round" to 0. Which could cause my program big problems.
would cause an error as well, since the compiler knows that a double is wider than a float.
A program without comments is a bit like an aeroplane which has an autopilot but no windows. There is a chance that it might take you to the right place, but it will be very hard to tell where it is going from the inside.
