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Comment by lesuorac

1 day ago

It's from a time before computer viruses no?

But also all of this book-keeping takes up extra time and space which is a trade-off easily made nowadays.

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rini17  1 day ago

Yes, in the old times if you crashed a program or whole computer with invalid input, it was your fault.

Viruses did exist, and these were considered users' fault too.

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