Author: Charles L. Williams
Date: 18:42:56 05/09/99
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On May 09, 1999 at 06:31:41, Frank Phillips wrote: >I have noticed that bugs in my program sometimes cause the onset of >irrationality where I bang the keyboard randomly hoping that by magic (or >perhaps the monkeys writing Shakespeare theory) the problem will go away. > I know exactly what you mean. At some point, there's a bug and I no longer know how the program works in the first place. The worst thing is if random attempts to fix it work! Then the program is more complex and the workings are even more of a mystery. The next bug becomes more difficult. I can only say what helps me. I go through cycles, where I develop the program and then simplify it. For example, this weekend I simplified a lot of functions, thus reducing a lot of redundancies. This will make whatever I decide to add far easier, and less prone to bugs. I still get them, however. <Snipped>
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