The image above is funny. Two things might be similar, but they are not the same.

Some years back, I was at a bank and I was told that Eli Agbenu is not the same as Anthony Eli Agbenu. Wow, so that meant I could not withdraw money. Yeah , go figure.

It is the same thing with programing. I had a fine piece of code which for some unfathomable reason refused to work. I even called a colleague over. He looked through it and gave it his coder blessing. It was supposed to work.

After nearly slapping the laptop silly, I sat back in my chair. I looked at it real hard. Just done I saw what I was missing. I had added an ‘s’ to a variable name some where.

Unbelievable ! Yes you can say it again. Unbelievable. I had spent a considerable amount of time because of one letter. I selected ‘s’, and pressed Delete.

My next issue was with my IDE. Unfortunately the editor I was using at the time did not help me out and left the work of spotting that error to me. Oh I solved that problem by getting another more helpful editor and bumping that one out the window.

Oh and with the bank I was able to withdraw my money in the end. It was a useful episode in which I learnt the meaning of being very specific with everything you do. Hopefully you can learn from me and not go through such a painful lesson yourself.

Hope you like this short post. I will catch y’all later.

Cheers.