Re: [Bug-apl] wsid backups

[Peter Teeson]

LOL! 
In the early days of SHARP APL there was a message when you logged on to our 
IBM Model 50 mainframe time sharing system.
It was SAVE OFTEN!    The interpreter was written in Assembly language and bugs 
would crash the system.
The dreaded CLEAR WS was the result….By the time the code was converted to “C” 
it had become very stable…

FWIW
> I personally design in very small increments and )SAVEing a lot. This is a 
> habit that I acquired when working
> with MS Windows because Windows programs (in particular MS Word) tended to 
> crash for no reason and then you
> were lucky to have a very recent backup.