Quote Originally Posted by Colino View Post
Maybe in the 80's. Any text editor for coding nowadays has either auto-correct options or an error finder that tracks down exactly which line of code was written incorrectly.

If there's a problem with your software nowadays it's most likely an entire section of wrong code or just bad design.
While this is true, there are many ways a program can just outright not work as intended. I've taken a few programming courses so I'm by no means a professional but even programming something simple can take days. Even something as simple as a misplaced or forgotten } (depending on the language) can throw off a lot of things.

One thing you also have to realize is that new people were brought in to work on the game. Going through someone else's coding and trying to make sense of it multiplies most of the problems involved with programming, especially if the original programmer didn't leave enough notes in there or if it wasn't organized very well.