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From: David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro>
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On Wed, 26 May 2004 18:15:53 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:

> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Here is another quote that got me smiling lately:
>> 
>> "Debugging is  twice as hard as  writing the code in  the first place.
>> Therefore, if you write the code  as cleverly as possible, you are, by
>> definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> If you program in C/C++ that is indeed true. How glad I am that I found out
> about Ada.

Why do you think it's a function of programming language? It may be at
a different level, but you can replace divisions with bit-twiddling,
structured code with hyperoptimized gotos, or manually inline code in
Ada just like C.