Chapter 8. Syntax Errors
“Fire bad!”
—Frankenstein's monster in a fit of homicidal frustration
“Typos bad!”
—The first programmer, same emotion
We realize we're tempting scorn by devoting a chapter to a subject as prosaic as typos, but someone must do these dirty jobs. Why? Consider this extract from a shift.com article by Clive Thompson:[1]
[1] http://www.shift.com/shiftstd/SiteMap/frames/mag7.6.asp?searchfor=7.6bombsquad
Still, by any standard, speed kills quality. Consider the research currently being conducted by Watts Humphrey, a 45-year veteran of the industry and a fellow of the Software Engineering Institute. By studying programmers ...
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