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Debugging is hard. There are many things we do to make it easier on ourselves. Feature-level things like building tracing and logging capabilities. Design-level things like having clear points at which state is checked for consistency (internal or parameters
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As a short follow-up to my last post on reasoning about code , I wanted to touch upon abstraction in general - meaning "information hiding" in the general sense, and not necessarily a particular programming mechanism such as polymorphism or some such
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When we have conversation about API design, or more generally about fragments of code that we write or we think customers will write, we often talk about reasoning about code . We typically mean that someone reading the code will be able to understand
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