There are absolutely going to be times where you're running a program where the programmer, say you, didn't possibly know in advanced how much RAM the program was going to need.

它们总是在,程序员运行程序的地方，你可能预先不知道那个程序,需要多少内存。

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I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.

我特别强调了这一点,因为我知道你们都会慢慢成为程序员;,你在写代码过程中造成了一系列的错误，你还在写代码，你不想浪费时间，我想把“浪费时间“用引号圈起来，浪费时间来做因为防卫性程序设计，而带来的这些额外的事情,你只想赶紧把程序写完，这不是一个好习惯，因为当你做完回头。

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But long story short, if I want to use a function called sleep, -- the reason I, the programmer, knew to use that library -- -- that header at the top -- because it told me to in this little synopsis.

但长话短说，如果我想要用一个叫做sleep的功能，我作为程序员知道使用那个函数库-,上面的标题-,因为在这个小的大纲中它告诉我。

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