> easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code.
And it can be worse. IBM, I think it was, back in the 1970s or 80s, said that 80% of the lines of production-ready code dealt with errors - only 20% was doing the actual program functionality.
And it can be worse. IBM, I think it was, back in the 1970s or 80s, said that 80% of the lines of production-ready code dealt with errors - only 20% was doing the actual program functionality.