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#Dubuggers? Why?

    05-May-90 21:12:03
Sb: #102597-#Dubuggers? Why?
Fm: Marcus Mullins 75706,325
To: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
Hmmm… haven't you ever keyed 100 when you meant 10, or 1000. About 5 years ago I worked on a project that turned into about 5.5 million lines of C code. Believe me, with THAT much typing going on, someone is going to type in incorrect constant (I know, you #define everthing, right? So do you write "for (x=ZERO; x<MAX_VALUE; X+=ONE)" ? I hope not). I know, good front end design eliminates 99% of those awful bugs I mention, but what do you do with that remaining 1% :^) By the way, I think MAX_VALUE is ok, just not ONE and ZERO :^)