Efficient python programming...

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri Jun 7 08:48:54 EDT 2002


Emile van Sebille wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen
> > You forgot the even more important first thing for a beginner:
> > get it correct!  The only good way to do this is to write unit
> > tests that prove it.  If you don't have tests, you don't have
> > working code (or how can you prove it?).
> 
> We always used absence of bug reports as a gauge... and always
> questioned if that indicated usage or correctness.  ;-)

For those who are serious when they say that, it's all well
and good if you can get your customer to test the code for 
you.... ;-)

-Peter



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