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+++ title = "Debugging Axiom #1" date = 2007-02-28T13:02:04Z in_search_index = true [taxonomies] tags = [ "Site-News", "Software-Development", ] +++ There is an axiom coined I believe by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes novels that every programmer should keep in mind while debugging his program.

When you have eliminated every other possibility; Whatever is left, however improbable, Must be the Solution.
There has been many a time when I could have arrived at the answer much sooner but was stuck because what the program was doing seemed to be impossible. When I accepted that it was possible then I was able to begin tracking down how it was possible and thus finding the solution. After one too many occurences of this I think I'm going to make a big poster with this axiom on it and hang it above my monitor.