I've been programming since 1974. I have 3 terabytes of internal storage and another 3 terabytes available using external docking stations, so disk space is not a problem. As for remembering what I've done... true, but trust me, I know how to read my code and I do document my work reasonably well. However, as I am always open to changes and new things I will try tortoisesvn. My original post was mainly at addressing the problem of convincing someone to use a system. When I was first aware of spreadsheet software I never made any headway into using them. I got taught how to use Lotus 1-2-3, by a representative from Lotus, and now I use spreadsheets for a lot of things. It's like TDD, I read a lot about it and why to use it, but there isn't a lot of how to do TDD. For all I know I have been doing TDD for years, only it is just a different name.

As I work alone, mostly, I don't use any particular program for version control, other than upon reaching a particular milestone I archive the code using WinRar and store on an external drive. Part of the problem, for me, is that learning and setting up a repository takes more time than I have to devote to it.

I'm one of those old gits. Honestly, I don't see what the problem is with the code except for the variable names. The programmer set all the files to read-only as a precaution. Probably not necessary now with the fast drives and IO buses, but in the 90's, it would have been a good precaution. As for the term spaghetti monster, the term doesn't fit the example. At no time does the code jump out of scope, unless the definition has changed to include bad variable naming.

While in fact FDR did want to get the US involved in WW2 because of the threat that Germany posed in Europe, that in no way implicates the US as a perpetrator. Before WW2, the US had no interest in becoming a world leader and most of the citizen resisted efforts to become involved feeling that WW2 was not our war. Had Japan not attacked Pearl Harbor the US likely would have entered WW2 in a limited way, probably only assisting in the elimination of Hitler in Europe. You must remember that at the time, the US knew nothing of the genocide that was being done by Hitler and had even fewer concerns about the Japanese expansion. As for the Japanese army, they were tenacious in the defense of their territories. A full scale invasion of the Japanese island likely would have resulted in a long protracted war. Even when the first atomic bomb was dropped, the leaders could have ended hostilities, but it wasn't until the second bomb was dropped that the Japanese surrendered. The rest of what you said is drivel and bears no relationship to anything historical at the time in question.