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Originally Posted by Bleicke  Programming is all try and error and experience. |
I remember a time when great care was taken to ensure programs worked pretty much first time.
In those days the documentation told you everything you need to know - not like programming Windows where you have to search the online self-help groups to find a post telling you what the documentation doesn't.
And systems were backward-compatible. You'd write a program and it would work always. And the program did what you programmed it to do, rather than doing different things depending on the environment - i.e. there was no PHP.
And the greatest effort was in developing the program itself, not trying to cope with the infinite number of configurations of middleware that might be on a destination machine.
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Do I sound like Grandpa from The Simpsons?