[aklug] Re: The Phantom Bug

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Thu Apr 16 2009 - 18:53:52 AKDT

On Thursday 16 April 2009, Christopher Howard said something like:
> (*beats head against wall*) Have you ever noticed, whenever you are
> coding a program, that there is always that one illusory bug. It
> shows up without fail at run time, but for all that is good and
> virtuous you can never find it in the actual code. You run over your
> syntax line by line until your eyes fall out, but some how just as
> you get close it realizes you are coming and hides somewhere else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug#Heisenbug

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