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Answer:

It was when I first wrote the program.

Now, it is not.

It may seem strange that a correctly written program can become buggy without being altered. But this is actually common. Circumstances external to a program often change, so the program must be revised. Much of what professional programmers do is program maintainance: keeping programs up to date with changing requirements.


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The next chapter will discuss the beginning elements of the Java language (at last!).


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