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I also looked this up, and found the original paper that coined the term, which starts: > The "Wolf Fence" method of debugging time-sharing programs in higher
by mbateman 15y ago
I also looked this up, and found the original paper that coined the term, which starts:
> The "Wolf Fence" method of debugging time-sharing programs in higher languages evolved from the "Lions in South Africa" method that I have taught since the vacuum-tube machine language days. It is a quickly converging iteration that serves to catch run-time errors.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358695 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358695 (if you have access)
Anyone know what the "Lions in South Africa" method is? I couldn't find it via Google, it just kept turning up references to the same paper.
- prolepunk 15y agoAfter a quick googling I found this explanation of wolf-fence debugging: http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/wolf-fence-debugging.html http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/wolf-fence-debuggi... It stipulates that the state of Alaska has got exactly one wolf, so you build a fence across the middle of the state to find on which side wolf would howl, then subdivide the problem, etc... I'm assuming in your case the wolf got replace with a lion and Alaska with South Africa.