# So much of debugging is about playing the game of lists (and so much
debugging is still necessary…

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So much of debugging is about playing the game of lists (and so much debugging
is still necessary with modern design tools) that I wonder if people who are
abnormally bad at the list game are filtered out of software engineering at
the very beginning stages — finding debugging extremely difficult and not
realizing that it’s a very particular type of memory / imagination to blame.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [February 19,
2018](https://medium.com/p/c732e774cfaa).

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playing-the-game-of-lists-and-so-much-debugging-is-still-
necessary-c732e774cfaa)

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