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Stupid bug: "doh!!!" (*palm-face*) Not-so-stupid bug: "aha!!!" (*mumbling: "I found you! You little dirty <add your favourite expletive here>"*) Any program has at least one unavoidable big bug: its end user :-D -- Lorenzo Stupid bug: you really have to fix, like famous Pentium FDIV bug http://www.trnicely.net/pentbug/pentbug.html https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fdiv.html http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/pentium.jokes.html Not-so-stupid bug: can hide behind "patched" documentation. As long as software behavior matched the docs, it is *not* a bug Microsoft Excel "bug": power is left to right ? 2^3^4 == (2^3)^4 unary minus is "sticky": -2^3 == (-2)^3 Even "stick" to cells: -A1^2 == A1^2 Microsoft response ? This behaviour is by design of Microsoft Excel ... Bill Gates take on Microsoft bugs: FOCUS: But there are bugs in any version which people would really like to have fixed. Gates:: No! There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. FOCUS: Oh, my God. I always get mad at my computer if MS Word swallows the page numbers of a document which I printed a couple of times with page numbers. If I complain to anybody they say "Well, upgrade from version 5.11 to 6.0". Gates:: No! If you really think there's a bug you should report a bug. Maybe you're not using it properly. Have you ever considered that? |