Larry Wall Quotes on Bugs
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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG? Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)
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Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map! Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations... Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!? Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'... Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.
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Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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pos += screamnext[pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */