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A comment on Ask HN: What’s the biggest difference between professional coding and academia?.

Re:Ask HN: What’s the biggest difference between professiona... by throwaway-emc2 on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:29PM (#14723913)
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth.

This is the biggest difference between academic and professional programming in a single pithy statement, from a paper that Knuth wrote.

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