Why bother with a flesh-and-blood sales clerk at all? Hook the reader into a database and a monitor. You can even put a nice smiling emoticon on the monitor for that friendly touch.
I was going to make the same comment but you beat me to it.
I would also add that as the code ages and becomes more spagetti-like , it gets harder and harder to extend without breaking. A point is reached where any additions or changes cause unexpected side-effects, *especially* once the original coders have left the project, or company.
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Why bother with a flesh-and-blood sales clerk at all? Hook the reader into a database and a monitor. You can even put a nice smiling emoticon on the monitor for that friendly touch.
I wonder what effect temperatures of >100f or 0f will have on these things. Especially cold, with the attendant water/frost condensation.
I was going to make the same comment but you beat me to it. I would also add that as the code ages and becomes more spagetti-like , it gets harder and harder to extend without breaking. A point is reached where any additions or changes cause unexpected side-effects, *especially* once the original coders have left the project, or company.