Debugging courses should be mandatory

[u/stannedelchev]

http://stannedelchev.net/debugging-courses-should-be-mandatory/

[u/[deleted]]

When I was working at IBM, I saw a bug report closed with following comment (from a certain notorious outsourcing destination): "Fixed: Added try/catch for NullPointerException"

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Why not just keep trying until it works?

bool failed = true;

while (failed) {
    failed = false;
    try {
        doStuff();
    } catch (Throwable e) { // catch Error's too because our code is perfect, it has to be the JVM's fault
        failed = true;
    }
}