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Debugging
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The neighbourhood: debugging and the ideas it travels with. Drag to roam, click a star for the episode, click a neighbour to travel.
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What the corpus says
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Dave Plummer's early fascination with computers began with the TRS-80 Model 1 at age 11, setting the stage for his software career.
Windows 95's introduction of 32-bit support and a new UI was a market revolution, though Plummer considers OS/360 the most impactful OS.
Debugging consumes 80% of development time, highlighting the need for efficient tools and strategies in software engineering.
Plummer's GitHub Primes project benchmarks prime number algorithms across 100 languages, with Zig outperforming C++ in recent tests.
Python 3.11 is 10-60% faster due to interpreter optimizations, not a JIT compiler.
Guido van Rossum · Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
Guido van Rossum sees Python evolving into a legacy language, crucial but unnoticed.
Guido van Rossum · Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
Guido van Rossum · Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
75% of a developer's time is spent on debugging, costing $113 billion annually in the US.
Guido van Rossum · Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
Static type checkers like MYPY evolve faster than Python's syntax updates.
Guido van Rossum · Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
Voices on debugging
8 standout quotes from across the corpus.
Go read
7 books and papers cited across these episodes.
For the specialist
What experts find new
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Still unresolved
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The thinkers
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