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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:33:23 +0100
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On 08.02.11 18:13, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Then don't write large routines.

Is there evidence that a mechanism necessary for combining
the smaller routines leads to fewer errors?  I'd like to
believe this if its statistically true.

(And put aside worries about impractical overhead that, for
example, objects have in some languages.)