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Worst coding mistake you've made?
Week 8 Group Rant
gabbales
8y

I spent 3 full days trying to debug an error caused by ONE SINGLE SEMICOLON.

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  • 4
    8y
    Either your methods have too much in it or you're using a really crappy compiler that doesn't give you good error messages with line numbers..
  • 1
    8y
    it may not be compiled code
  • 1
    8y
    very crappy compiler
  • 1
    8y
    What are you working with? Most decent IDEs will tell you as you are writing your code.
  • 1
    8y
    it was Java code for supporting an SAP web application in netweaver, which at the time did not have a debugger (I understand there's been many improvements since I last worked with it)
  • 0
    8y
    hide n seek champion for years right
  • 1
    8y
    Lost 24 hours of my life because I once put 'false' in quotes.
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