Unintended Bugs In Demonstration Code For Intential Software
from the not-a-great-start dept
Adam Barr writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer yesterday had a story about Charles Simonyi leaving Microsoft, and today had a follow-up about his plans for his new company. The funny part is that the second article, trying to demonstrate how a "Hello, world!" program would be written to be bug-free, has a sample of the "old" way, a C program, which has an unintended bug in it -- it loops forever (those "{lcub}" and "{rcub}" in the online version of the article appeared as "{" and "}" in the printed one). Hmmm, I guess if you can't get "Hello, world!" correct in C, maybe it is time for something new."
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The Great American Programming Language
"When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop."
-- CMU jokes.txt, circa 1984
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just noticed the intentional
Or you could copy "Hello, world!" out of K&R, with no comments.
- adam
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