Life: May 14, 1919 - January 8, 1996
Birthday: May 14
Death: January 8
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.
Topics: Errors, Sitting, Way, Computer Language, Computer Programmers
An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.
Topics: Errors, People, Design, Interactive
