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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

expressly designed to carry on regardless

I'm surprised they didn't borrow On Error Resume Next from Visual Basic. Which was wrongly considered to be the worst thing in Visual Basic - when the real worst thing was On Error Resume. On Error Resume Next at least moved on to the next line of code when an error occurred; On Error Resume just executed the error-generating line again ... and again ... and again ... and again ...