Posted by David Segall on 08/19/06 13:28

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

>
>> In your case, you might try taking pieces OUT, piece by piece.
>
>Actually, in both HTML authoring and in programming, the effective method is
>to start from something simple and robust and then put additional things IN,
>until some problem emerges and you can kill it softly.
It may be "effective" but it is extraordinarily inefficient. In most
cases a binary search will reveal the problem with the minimum of
effort. With a piece of electronic apparatus, a computer program or a
web page if you can repeatedly discover which half contains the
problem you can kill it quickly.

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