P A R T 1
The Preliminaries
A Netscape engineer who shan't be named once passed a pointer to JavaScript, stored it as a string and later passed it back to C, killing 30.
—Blake Ross
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
—Brian W. Kernighan
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
—Fred Brooks
A word to the wise ain't necessary—it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
—Bill Cosby
All sorts ...
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