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This meme was written by a novice that does not yet know true pain. An error that takes fifteen minutes to find! In your own code! Ha, you young whipper snapper... just wait until you have to debug an unforeseen edge case in a library... especially if it's compiled. And once you've seen that, once you've known that horror, come and talk to me about DLL hell.
Unless you're working with installers and, probably, in C++ it's unlikely you'll ever meet this Cthonic horror. Zalgo? Tony the Pony comes? You have met that friendly demon of development? They are but the apprentice... DLL hell is a span of time measured in days.
... Alternatively talk to me about trying to track down an extra newline at the end of a PHP file, that (against all advice) has a closing tag, that causes some output to be sent preventing you from sending headers to the client. There's no error detection for that and PHP is an interpreted language... you just need to check files manually!
Not really programming but I once had an issue that lasted for months like that: I'm working with a software specific to our industry that generate quotes, sales order and production orders.
For quotes and sales order a PDF can be created and archived in the right folder automatically, or you can use the windows "Print to pdf" printer to do that manually which take closes to a minute for the sales person to create the right folder, with the right name and put the PDF in there with the order number.
The automatic PDF creation fail to include our logo each time and I battled for months with the software company that was telling me that everything is working fine.
Until I looked in the metadata of the PDF the company was sending us, few of the PDFs they were sending is did not have any logo and were created by their software, some had their logo and were created with an external PDF printer.
After I realized they had the same problem internally but were lying about it I just took a day to create a python script running as a service on the server that automatically add the logo on the PDF created and that was it.
Hey now, lots of us still...
I see what you did there.
For anyone reading along who has not experienced DLL hell, don't believe this account on face value.
xmunk is clearly understating the horrors, as a kindness, to protect you from what we went through.
See also: James Mickens, The Night Watch.
Thank you for introducing me to my new second favorite piece of literature titled "Night Watch"!
Sam Vimes would be a conflicted member for a post-end-times forecast-says-blood kind of gang.
Can't you just grep (or something) for ?> followed by a whitespace? Though yeah, both are fun problems. Luckily I had to deal with DLL hell only once in my lifetime and presumably, if I stay on the same career path, will never have to again.
You just talked me out of switching careers, thanks