terryking228:
Hey Jack,Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
Like that.. My favorite, "There is nothing more catastrophic than a successful retry of the WRONG operation" (From the IBM Series/1 designers's handbook, about 1975).
Hey Terry!
You've been scarce? Anyhoo that quote's not original, wish I could remember where it came from. I remember the S/1, never worked on them, but we had some around. That's a good quote too, nothing can create havoc faster than a computer doing the wrong thing! The RBS Group banks recently learned that one the hard way: RBS Group Banking Nightmare Continues for Some - IEEE Spectrum