Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many program…

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Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

- Brian Kernighan

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

- Brian Kernighan

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

- Brian Kernighan

Believe the terrain, not the map

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... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are no…

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As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that w…

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Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

- Brian Kernighan

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

- Brian Kernighan