On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:12:30 EST, John Richard Moser said: > Uh. I read my code like a thousand times, I was pretty sure I found all > bugs. I'm used to you know, not having any; but I'm used to writing my > entire codebase from scratch, so I usually know what the *entire* > program does. > > I was surprised, is that wrong? Yes, you were wrong. The fact that one can produce a mostly bug-free codebase from scratch (and I'll quickly point out the *vast* difference between "bug-free" and "no reported bugs") only shows that you know how to produce fairly small and self-contained programs. Being able to write a 10K standalong program is *vastly* different than being able to write 10K lines that will fit bug-free into a 10M line program. And a few days of lurking on lkml will show that *nobody* at the top is "used to not having any" bugs - even Linus has at least one "OK, so I'm an idiot" posting a month. Even DJ Bernstein and Don Knuth don't claim to write totally bug-free code. ;)
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