As Soon As We Started Programming, We Found To Our Surprise That It Wasn't As Easy To Get Programs Right As We Had Thought.

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As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't
as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be
discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large
part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in
my own programs.
-- Maurice Wilkes, designer of EDSAC, on programming, 1949

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