Kernighan’s Law and Product Design
The importance of designing products and programs for simplicity, consistency, and maintainability
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5 min readApr 29, 2024
Kernighan’s Law is named after Brian Kernighan, a computer scientist who co-authored the book “The C Programming Language.” It is a fundamental principle in software engineering. Simply put, Kernighan’s Law states that debugging is twice as…