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It's because developers are eternally optimistic. How else can you explain someone hitting a "compile" button a hundred times a day, hoping each time to get no

by allenp 16y ago

It's because developers are eternally optimistic. How else can you explain someone hitting a "compile" button a hundred times a day, hoping each time to get no errors?

qntm 16y ago
Hey, sometimes I compile with the expectation of error, just to make sure that the right error comes out.
- gaustin 16y ago
  Same here. I call it Error Driven Development.
- cosgroveb 16y ago
  This reminds me of assembly language in college... Each assignment we were told to end the program on a different type of ABEND ("for this assignment I want you to generate a SOC8, integer overflow" etc, etc...)