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Originally posted by A. Snodgrass
Software might not have magic smoke...but it CAN have gremlins...little errors in the code which are a pain to trace. Even if you get all of them, which I doubt is completely possible, you will STILL have the little buggers running around, hidden. Its part of the joys of programming.
...which reminds me:
Axiom #1: Every program has at least one bug.
Axiom #2: Every program can be shortened by at least one instruction.
It is, therefore, obvious that any program may be reduced to a single instruction which does not work.
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