[aklug] Re: The Phantom Bug

Christopher Howard wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Kugler
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> What's it called when you've created a bugfix that works but you really
> don't know why?
>
>
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Received on Fri Apr 17 13:34:20 2009