From: Paul Lutus Date: 2006-11-25T04:48:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Bug in ruby? Jim Cochrane wrote: > On 2006-11-21, Paul Lutus wrote: >> AliasX Neo wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> This application needs to get done >>> tonight, and I really can't afford anymore time on this tiny little bug. >> >> Famous last words. >> > > So, how'd it go? Was it finished in time and under budget? :-) I think the OP is a student, in any case someone who isn't that into programming as recreation. Professionals don't conceptualize program flaws as "this tiny little bug". There is no such thing. All the tiny little bugs that weren't so tiny ... the one that disabled a US Navy destroyer running NT (after someone entered a zero into a user-level application and precipitated a divide-by-zero error that brought down the entire network), which then drifted out of control as the sailor geeks tried to restart the network. The bug that caused the Airbus to fly into the trees during an air show low pass (passengers on board). The microcode bug that caused Intel processors to produce incorrect math results, and damaged their reputation for a while. The bug that cause Mars Polar Explorer to prematurely shut down its engine and fall the last 100 meters to the surface of Mars, never to be heard from again. "Tiny little bug." No such thing. -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com