Eliminating redundancy is often viewed as a way to streamline productivity and reduce waste. But the right kind of redundancy can dramatically improve quality. For example, double entry bookkeeping, invented in the middle ages, was a great advance in accounting because it introduced a redundancy that nearly eliminated common arithmetic errors.

May 08, 2008
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/redundancy-in-programming-languages/228700482

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