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Old 05-13-2019, 03:03 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by TomVeal View Post
Back in the very, very old days, which few now remember, programs were much simpler and were written in languages like BASIC and Pascal, which ordinary human beings could use. That's all the programming experience that I have, but I remember how much trouble it was to introduce minor exceptions that applied only under unusual circumstances without generating bugs. I doubt that it's any easier with modern programming languages and vastly bigger programs.
It's easy to give a solution when you don't have to be responsible for fixing all the other things it may break.
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