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I only got into GCC because someone mentioned free beer.

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Michelangelo reportedly said that he could see a statue in a block of marble, and that his goal as a sculptor was to carve away everything which wasn't part of the statue. Some programmers appear to similarly believe that programming means starting with a block of code, and carving away everything which isn't part of the program. This is also known as programming by debugging. It's a bad idea. Don't do it.

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