From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,de5dfd6df880dd3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Vladimir Olensky" Subject: Re: Bugs or Mistakes? Date: 1999/11/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 548077060 References: <19991112202656.2368.rocketmail@web216.mail.yahoo.com> <1999Nov12.201602.1@eisner> Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Date: 1999-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Vladimir Olensky wrote in message ... > >In industry where I have been working for many years >before my current work there were no such word >as "bug". There were such words as "design flaw", >"error" and "defect" and that resulted in very >strict and tight quality control methodology. This passage contains small "bug" in programming language sense but it called grammar error in normal language sense Instead of writing " had been working" I wrote "have been working". What is it - "bug" or an "error" ? This also illustrates the common source of such errors which is the code modification without proper checking how it affects other portions of code. When I started writing this there were no words "before my current work" and everything was OK. After inserting them in my "code" everything has changed. There exists another "bug" which was caused by removing one word out of several in succession but not changing relevant verb ("were no such word as ..."). It is also called grammar error in normal language sense. A lot of programmers like to name such things as "bugs". Regards, Vladimir Olensky