The Silver Vixen has spent most of the day at her sewing machine making a dress. The Gorse Fox spent the day at the code-face. A bug had to be tracked down, and proved elusive. It was eventually crushed, mercilessly.
The problem with debugging other people’s code is that it triggers a whole lot of “what-ifs” regarding coding technique. This drove the Gorse Fox down another path and he is now several hundred lines of code into a new program to replace the original. Needless to say, it is not straightforward. If it was, the original authors of the other code would have got it right. There’s still a long way to go, but the advantage of lockdown is that it affords time to indulge in the pleasures of life.
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