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Refactoring difficulties


  • Most of the local variables were really more properties of the job that were discovered as the flow went along

  • Was hard to break up into sub-functions because you'd have to pass so many parameters (and return them back)

    • Could use a hash, but one typo would ruin your day and never be discovered

    • Even when the bug occured in the field, you got no diagnostics to pinpoint the problem

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