Sometimes a computer program is complex enough that you must make it only once, so you don't have to ever update it again, because if you update it -- even to just add a tiny little new thing -- then you risk breaking everything. And to make sure you are not crashing everything you'll have to revisit the entire logic, which is equivalent to rewriting it again from scratch.

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Oui c'est exactement ce qui se passe avec la programmation. Il faut être concentré et rigoureux.

the good old write once, refactor never.

no wait, that was a different catchfrase

Precious sats are locked in lntxbot fyi.

sounds like bad sw engineering to me

Could be. Or maybe you just have never done anything complex enough. We'll never know.

It has happened to all of us at some time 🤣🤣

Break your code into small chunks and add tests ... This is what I learnt when I tried programming .. But you must know this already

"Not invented here" is real.

Found the perl programmer...

Oh shit, should we be worried?!