(Not) Diving In
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Kids today. So spoiled by these fast computers and fancy “dynamic” languages. Write first, ship second, debug third (if ever). In my day, we had discipline. Discipline, I say! We had to write programs by hand, on paper, and feed them to the computer on punchcards. And we liked it!
In this chapter, you’re going to write and debug a set of utility functions to convert to and from Roman numerals. You saw the mechanics of constructing and validating Roman numerals in “Case study: roman numerals”. Now step back and consider what it would take to expand that into a two-way utility.