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rubber duck debugging
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English
Etymology
From a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer (1999).
Noun
rubber duck debugging (uncountable)
- (programming) The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.
- Hypernym: confessional debugging
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