Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Aug 1 10:40:16 PDT 2013


On 8/1/2013 9:53 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> OTOH, if you're talking about debugging *D* code, then you may have a
> point. :) I found that after falling in love with D's unittest blocks,
> the number of bugs in my code have dropped drastically (or rather, I
> catch 90% of them during coding time, instead of after I start using the
> program).

Unit tests are imperfect, they only catch certain kinds of bugs, etc., I hear a 
lot. But my experience is like yours - when I use unit tests (and a coverage 
analyzer to ensure the tests cover the code) I've had very, very few bugs in the 
resulting code.



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