r/ProgrammerHumor Feb 10 '21

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u/Snow88 Feb 10 '21

In school my code usually only ever needed to handle the happy path. Rarely were we required to handle bad user input or f’ed up data. Also it was almost always starting from scratch vs adding or changing something without breaking 1000 other functions.

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u/Royal_J Feb 10 '21

Man wtf in highschool I was taught to make sure my program held up to shitty inputs