2. It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Language Feature
Bugs are by far the largest and most successful class of entity, with nearly a million known species. In this respect they outnumber all the other known creatures about four to one.
—Professor Snopes’ Encyclopedia of Animal Life
why language features matter...sins of commission: switches let you downwith fall through...available hardware is a crayon?...too much defaultvisibility...sins of mission: overloading the camel’s back...“some of theoperators have the wrong precedence”...the early bug gets() the Internetworm...sins of omission: mail won’t go to users with an “f” in theirusername...space–the final frontier...the compiler date is corrupted...lint should never have been separated out...some light ...
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