> I've been doing this for 30 years and have never lost anything. Just because it works for you doesn't mean it's good advice. I don't doubt copy+paste has wor

> I've been doing this for 30 years and have never lost anything. Just because it works for you doesn't mean it's good advice. I don't doubt copy+paste has worked for you for $LONG_TIME but I wonder whether you would say the same thing if you had started using $VERSION_CONTROL_SOFTWARE $LONG_TIME ago. Having finally gotten into the habit of doing all my development with the help of version control I can't imaging going back to copy+paste or project/backup/YYYYMMDD. Yes it works but all it is is a poorly, and incosistently implemented manual version control system with none of the advantages of a real VCS.