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I guess any bug that occurs below your accustomed abstraction level is "crazy". If most of your work happens in an interpreted high-level language, a quite mund

by wrs 17y ago

I guess any bug that occurs below your accustomed abstraction level is "crazy". If most of your work happens in an interpreted high-level language, a quite mundane bug in the runtime (like this) is "crazy". Hardware bugs are "crazy" to most software people at any level, but to hardware folks they're just bugs.

Eliezer 17y ago
I guess any bug that occurs below your accustomed abstraction level is "crazy". Good way of looking at it. So the ultimate crazy bug would be an error in the laws of physics? Actually, one better than that would be discovering an error in the laws of math.
- idlewords 17y ago
  That's probably why nature comes with error bars... err, hbars.
- tel 17y ago
  And the singular craziest bug is Incompleteness?
  - idlewords 17y ago
    not a bug, a feature
- tetha 17y ago
  Is that bug called 'strings'? ;)
ajuc 17y ago
I would say - the craziness of bug is proportional to the number of the levels of abstraction that it takes from the source of bug to its effects. And that's why I don't like systems with > 2 layers (J2EE, I'm talking to you).