Infocom on PDP-11

[der Mouse]

> Among my geezer-rants is the one about how the original Windows
> tutorial books by Petzold failed to include proper error checking on
> the results from Windows calls.

> Gee, it would've made the examples less clear, but it would've saved
> a lot of trouble and future (and lingering) bugs for all the
> cut-and-paste programmers out there.

Would that really have been a good thing?  I'm not convinced.  (Mind
you, I'd still more prefer that cut-and-paste programmers' code were
*blatantly* broken, since no matter what's in the examples their code
will be subtly broken much of the time anyway.)

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