Confessions of a terrible programmer

[Walter Hurry]

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:17:20 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Not specifically about Python, but still relevant:
>>
>> http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-
programmer.html
> 
> Pardon me, but I completely don't get this article.  Let me in on what
> is supposed to be the joke please!

No joke. Defensive programming is the only way to go if one is writing a 
serious system, whatever the language.