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So in other words, the acceptance protocol for this script was inadequate. In the minicomputer era, it was common for a programmer to be required to run it on
by ArkyBeagle 11y ago
So in other words, the acceptance protocol for this script was inadequate.
In the minicomputer era, it was common for a programmer to be required to run it on this one poor donkey of a machine to make it caught nothing on fire before moving to the big machine.
- ams6110 11y agoIt was the 1990s, not that it's an excuse but TDD wasn't a "thing" yet, nor was version control (at least not in that shop). For every change to a program we printed the diff, attached a cover memo, and filed it in a cabinet. Yes, there were test systems and programers were supposed to test all their changes, but they also were the ones who deployed their own changes to production so there were ways for this to happen pretty easily.