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It is also dependent on the environment.

My first job in the 1990s was programming VB for MS Access. I learned the hard way that if the bug wasn't obvious, it was probably Microsoft's fault. And over and over again I was able to demonstrate that it really WAS their fault.

My next job was in Perl. It took me a couple of years to find a bug that wasn't my own mistake.



VB for MS Access was exceptional in so many ways.




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