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People then concentrate more on avoiding errors than getting things done.
by fractalb 2y ago
People then concentrate more on avoiding errors than getting things done.
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago> easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. And it can be worse. IBM, I think it was, back in the 1970s or 80s, said that 80% of the lines of production-ready code dealt with errors - only 20% was doing the actual program functionality.