[Catalyst] The 2nd law of debugging (was: Weird error usingCatalyst::View::Mason)

[Raphael Kraus]

LOL....

Just saw your post (a tad behind in reading this list at the moment)...

Funny and true! Thanks for the reassurance and explanation. Something to
keep in mind for now before I hit that send button! 


Time to add to my library too!

Warm regards!


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* Raphael Kraus <rkraus at wildtechnology.net> [2006-02-07 10:15]:
>D'oh... Why is it that problems always bug me, and I don't get it until

>I ask on a mailing list - and then I see my own mistake...

Because when you stare at a problem for a long time you get into a
mental rut and become blind to your assumptions; by explaining problem
to someone else you can often break out of the rut and realise your
assumptions.

    Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your
    code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain
    the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few
    sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind. I see
    what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkbly
    well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One
    university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help
    desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain
    them to the bear before they could speak to a human
    counselor.

    -Brian W Kernighan, Rob Pike, "The Practice of Programming"

Reportedly, this worked well and markably reduced the load on the
understaffed computer centre.

Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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