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		nitwit005 on Feb 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug... You're ready for a promotion from software engineer to senior software engineer once you've spent hours debugging some piece of software, only to realize it's actually working as intended.

aewens on Feb 18, 2020 [–]

Is this implying the debugging was due to the code appearing incorrect or that the previously preceived erroneous behavior was actually intended?

nitwit005 on Feb 18, 2020 | [–]

The previously perceived erroneous behavior was actually intended. Just code that's extremely difficult to understand and debug.

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