So much of debugging is about playing the game of lists (and so much debugging
is still necessary…

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So much of debugging is about playing the game of lists (and so much debugging
is still necessary with modern design tools) that I wonder if people who are
abnormally bad at the list game are filtered out of software engineering at the
very beginning stages — finding debugging extremely difficult and not realizing
that it’s a very particular type of memory / imagination to blame.

By Rococo Modem Basilisk on February 19, 2018.

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