2 Quotes by Harlan Mills

  • Author Harlan Mills
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    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.

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  • Author Harlan Mills
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    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.

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