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by daxfohl 3556 days ago
The thing I don't like about whiteboard: A solid candidate that has a bug near the top of a function ends up looking sloppy because whiteboards don't have "insert". The same candidate making the same bug at the bottom of the function can just erase a closing brace and continue looking marvelous. It's very arbitrary I think.
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Possible solution: leave room at the top of the whiteboard and between some lines for erasing and rewriting sections.
Another option would be to write the program in BASIC, with line numbers.