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DiBona Keep It Simple, Stupid  Re: Avoiding silly programming
mistakes  by Mutant (Priest) on Aug 20, 2008 at 18:10 UTC
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Avoiding silly programming mistakes  Lots of good advice
already, but I had a couple of things to add. First, it's likely
programming will always allow you to make stupid errors
relatively easily. Programmers design and build systems so that
other people (or computers) won't be able to make stupid
mistakes. In order to do that, a language has to give us lots of
flexibilty, which equates to lots of rope to hang ourselves.
It's just part of the job.  Secondly, I find Eclipse with EPIC
really useful (there are other tools that give you similar
functionality. That's just what I use). A lot of stupid errors
are detected right away. Maybe not *everything*, but small
errors like typos are highlighted as you type, so you don't have
to run anything to find your compilation p