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"Because that is the way we have always done it" is not a valid excuse.
"We put additional checks in to catch these problems" is backwards. You are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Write your code in a way that those problems are unable to exist.
If NULL is the Billion dollar mistake and this is magnitudes more complex than NULL. How much is this costing us?
It's time to think outside the brackets { }.
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"Because that is the way we have always done it" is not a valid excuse.
"We put additional checks in to catch these problems" is backwards. You are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Write your code in a way that those problems are unable to exist.
If NULL is the Billion dollar mistake and
thisis magnitudes more complex than NULL. How much isthiscosting us?It's time to think outside the brackets { }.
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