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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Can You Believe That Number of Bugs?

The development process is extremely iterative. There's about one bug after every 15 lines when you're first typing it in. Some people will backspace over 20, 30, 40 characters to fix a typo earlier in a line. And then we type it and sometimes it takes three, four times to get it right. So I don't know what your definition of bug is, arguably mistyping a word and then correcting it immediately is not a bug.

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