[mad_as_he$$]

My pet peeve with young coders. Condition testing is hardly ever a consideration. You clearly learned back when coding was structured and had rules.

[ThunderSleeps]

Thank you, and yes. Some of my earliest coding was with FORTRAN on punched cards. I've been in the game long enough (3 decades plus) to know that you test nominal conditions, edge conditions, and completely out of bounds conditions because even "can't happen" will happen. Also if you're a young developer and some of your stuff is going to end up with human lives hanging in the balance and in nuclear rated weapons systems it tends to focus you and stay with you.

One thing I actually did with some commercial software I wrote - kind of as a joke - was put up one of my applications running in normal user mode... Then literally threw my cat onto the keyboard (gently folks). We always say "what if a cat walked across the keyboard?" at any given time... So I found out. ;-)