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Well, have you debugged? I've done so thousands of times, and invariably the cause was that the computer was doing exactly what I told it to do, but not what I
by avar 16y ago
Well, have you debugged? I've done so thousands of times, and invariably the cause was that the computer was doing exactly what I told it to do, but not what I thought I was telling it to do.
- eru 16y agoIndeed. Apart from hardware flaws and strange concurrency issues, that's the thing. I did not express myself clear enough. Perhaps I should have said that some people think, because computers only do what you tell them, that they can not surprise you. Debugging and fractals are only two counterexamples.