> One of the first rules in the marvelous book The Pragmatic Programmer is "Select() isn't broken". Yeah, but sometimes it is. And if a junior programmer came t

> One of the first rules in the marvelous book The Pragmatic Programmer is "Select() isn't broken". Yeah, but sometimes it is. And if a junior programmer came to me today reporting a bug in OS memory management, my first response would be "What's wrong with your code, really?" In my years of software development I had the fun but unfortunate experience of coming across not one, but two compiler bugs. The program would segfault on a seemingly innocuous line, but after looking a the assembly, it was clear the compiler was doing something screwy. These types of bugs are exceedingly rare, and they can be maddening to debug, but when you catch them you get a nice sense of satisfaction.