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23-02-2004, 22:30

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Re: sleep()

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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.

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.

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