{"id":30415,"date":"2012-10-01T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/the-origin-of-debugging.html"},"modified":"2012-10-01T05:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:50:23","slug":"the-origin-of-debugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/the-origin-of-debugging.html","title":{"rendered":"The origin of debugging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The origin of debugging<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107357401349156916755'>John Cook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn\u2019t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.\u201d &#8212; Maurice Wilkes, 1949.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Rg2NcSoNTv5' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of debugging Reshared post from +John Cook \u201cAs soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn\u2019t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/the-origin-of-debugging.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The origin of debugging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3157,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/31\/more_more_more.html","url_meta":{"origin":30415,"position":0},"title":"More!  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