More from Brian Kernighan

  1. Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
  2. If you haven't used grep, you've missed one of the simple pleasures of life. [2]
  3. Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.
  4. Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write…
  5. The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

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