Quote: in debugging, need to general mechanism to remove side-effects so that operations can be reversed and initial states restored

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The second tool needed for debugging is side-effect … The inverse operation(s) required to restore the original … [after a debugging operation] … the precise side-effects some of his actions are … (except, of course, the delivery of the result). …   Google-1   Google-2

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