If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they sh…

Edsger Dijkstra
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If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with. ✨ The Humble Programmer. Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
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