"He went on to explain that there might be other instances of the bug, since it was due to my misunderstanding of Perl and not a mere typographical error. The q

"He went on to explain that there might be other instances of the bug, since it was due to my misunderstanding of Perl and not a mere typographical error. The question arose of how we could detect and correct all of those bugs immediately. ... I meekly suggested that the task of finding and fixing the bugs could be automated by a Perl script, and it was then that they asked me to leave the room." Awesome.