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Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code

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On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:01:39 -0800, lewbloch wrote:

> One of the early lessons in my programming career is that it is pretty
> much always your own fault. If you ever find yourself blaming the
> compiler or the IDE, you are probably wrong. This is one of those useful
> principles that falls into "teach a person to fish".
>
Well said.

I've been involved with programming, both professionally and for my own 
purposes, since the late '60s. In all that time I think I've found and 
reported all of three major bugs in vendor or OS code. The only real 
showstopper was in a mainframe database (IDMSX), where the software 
clearly didn't do what the manual said it should. The vendor solution was 
to change that part of the manual.
 
> Likewise, "I wrote it correctly" is one of those things that prevents
> you from figuring out where you wrote it incorrectly. If you are chasing
> down a bug, then the evidence is that you did not write it correctly,
> and thinking otherwise is, technically, stupid.
> 
+1
 

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  Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 08:15 -0800
    Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-12-12 11:27 -0500
  Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 08:54 -0800
    Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-12-12 12:02 -0500
      Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 09:06 -0800
        Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-12-12 12:40 -0500
          Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 09:52 -0800
            Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 10:21 -0800
            Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-12-12 13:36 -0500
              Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 12:28 -0800
                Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-12-12 16:28 -0500
                Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 13:39 -0800
                Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 14:17 -0800
                Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-12-12 18:08 -0500
      Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Karim omar <karimyousrymohamedomar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 09:09 -0800
  Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code lewbloch@gmail.com - 2016-12-13 12:38 -0800
    Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 12:49 -0800
      Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code lewbloch@gmail.com - 2016-12-14 17:01 -0800
        Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-15 10:47 +0000
  Re: i need help figuring out what is wrong in my code Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-12-13 16:07 -0800

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