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Originally Posted by mtrawls
All the "horror" stories my SICP instructor told me a couple of years ago about debug statements causing or removing bugs (the act of observing disturbs the observed?) have come true.
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Bugs like those are colloquially known as "Heisenbugs", after Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that observing something will alter that which you are trying to observe. They're ever-so-fun to track down.