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I'd probably be more likely to blame the hardware or compiler if my work was programming new hardware or custom compilers! I think the situation is that if you

I'd probably be more likely to blame the hardware or compiler if my work was programming new hardware or custom compilers! I think the situation is that if you're quick to blame others for a problem which turns out to be your own mistake - it has a tendency to really piss off co-workers. Experienced programmers learn to challenge their own code first as a habit out of consideration for others on their team. It's embarrassing to swear up and down that there is a hardware/compiler/whatever problem, only to have a bunch of people look into it and find a mistake that you made.

Zak 13y ago
I think it's more a matter of hardware and compilers usually being widely-used and well-tested. You're just not very likely to discover a bug in an Intel CPU or GCC, while you're newly-written code, being newly-written code hasn't been well-tested yet. If you're using one-off hardware or a brand new compiler, it isn't so unreasonable to suspect those pieces of having bugs.
rat87 13y ago
The playstation was out dec 94(japan)/Sep 95(North America) Crash came out in 96. I think it ha a custom compiler called ccpsx(found based on googling around).