My Bug Fixing Attitude

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My bug fixing attitude is that if it didn't require an oscilloscope, it wasn't a real bug.

What's your bug hunting attitude?

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Really enjoying Ultraviolet, if you haven't checked it out before... do so. We may have to screen it in UniSFA if I ever get my act together and start doing some UniSFA screenings.
Posted 10/4/06 22:38 — 2 comments

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From:[info]egeirein
Date:2006-04-10 18:17 (UTC)
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I have to agree.

In EWD1036 - On the cruelty of really teaching computer science, Edsger Dijkstra suggests we call bugs errors.

. . . It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error. The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation. The nice thing of this simple change of vocabulary is that it has such a profound effect: while, before, a program with only one bug used to be almost correct, afterwards a program with an error is just wrong (because in error).

If it didn't require an oscilloscope, it wasn't a bug; it was a programmer error.

From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-04-10 20:20 (UTC)

"..must be the hardware!"

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Nah, I disagree. Chances are that if I need to use the scope to debug, I can blame the bug on the hardware guy :-P

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