Post #1786903
2026-04-29 19:19 UTC
I wonder just how deep the sinking feeling was when this realization hit:
"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. We had to discover debugging. 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, 1949
Replies (2)
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@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net 2026-04-29 19:22
@cstanhope Proof that we stand on the shoulders of giants
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@Soozcat@vmst.io 2026-04-30 02:20
@cstanhope Some folks are getting prepared to learn this again. After they laid off all their software testers.