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lesuoracyesterday at 3:22 PM1 replyview on HN

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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rini17yesterday at 3:44 PM

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.