(9) Are there programmers who write virtually bug-free code? - Quora
An object lesson here is this widely used 17 line subroutine that contains a subtle bug - which remained undetected for 20 years.Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken
Is your coding so good that you wouldn't make a coding error like that yourself? Or do you know of anyone who can code so accurately as that?
Also - as you get better at coding - yes you can write maybe a hundred lines of code with no bugs (usually) - but if you are able to do that - that means you can write code far faster - because it's the bugs that slow the process down most of all. So you end up writing thousands of lines of codes regularly - and those then have bugs in them. If you can write a thousand lines of code bug free - then you end up writing tens of thousands of lines of code - with bugs in it.
Can anyone write ten thousand lines of code that is virtually bug free, no significant bugs in it?
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