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If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Edsger Dijkstra
Debugging, Want, Waste
"The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.