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Who was it that said the biggest problem in programming is concurrency and off by one errors?
by moioci 13y ago
Who was it that said the biggest problem in programming is concurrency and off by one errors?
- Falkon1313 13y agoOr clear communication and understanding of the specifications? Seems impossible for anyone to interpret it differently than the student did, but from the comments it's clearly easy for people to extract ambiguity from what appears to be a simple, straightforward specification.
- jamessb 13y agoWell, Phil Karlton said that "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things". Some people list off-by-one errors as the third hardest thing.
- randlet 13y agoI think the joke is: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science; cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors".
- gizmo686 13y agoWhats the joke? The hard things are: 0) cache invalidation 1) naming things 2) off by one errors Looks like he counted right to me. EDIT: fixed newlines
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- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago[ "cache invalidation", "naming things", "off by one errors"].length != 2
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- gizmo686 13y agoWhats the joke? The hard things are: 0) cache invalidation 1) naming things 2) off by one errors Looks like he counted right to me.