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26: Mainline

You generally go around two key loops many times as you search for bugs.

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| Write or edit source code | <--*  <---------------------* 
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  |                              | Fix bugs that          | 
  v                              | emerge during          | 
*---------------------------*    | compilation            | 
| Compile source code       | ---*                        | 
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  |                                         Fix bugs that | 
  v                                         emerge during | 
*---------------------------*               execution     | 
| Execute program           | ----------------------------* 
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