' ... If you've got a system which is at least working even though it's not doing everything necessarily you want it to, I think what you should do is say right, if we find a fault with this critical, ... then you will alter that system, but otherwise your energies will be directed to rewriting the system and checking its functions properly. So for example, using another simple example, if you've got the X underlined on an exit key, alt and X should take you out of it. If you do that and nothing happens, to me that's either sloppy control or sloppy handling of the, or maybe both, by the programmer and those sort of things frustrate people using it and some of these things weren't wrong in the first instance, so one must question why they were wrong in the second one.'X071 page 006.02 (tape 03.1.06) Keith Notes/Tape 20/01/95
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