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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Ada GC (was Re: Ammo-zilla)
Date: 1999/11/10
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Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> I usually tell my clients and students to stop using the word "bug"
> entirely.  Software practice is the only engineering wannabee that
> euphemizes away its mistakes by labeling them bugs.  

Shrug.

I don't use the word "bug" as a euphemism.  Bugs are my enemy, and I
take them quite seriously.  I don't think renaming them "mistakes" or
"errors" or "disasters" would change people's attitudes.

- Bob