Royal Pain

[Peter L. Peres]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> I would say there are no bugs in this code ...
>
>   #!/usr/bin/perl
>   print "Hello world!\n";
>
> Of course the bigger the program, the bigger the ego that is required to say
> there are no bugs.  Still I don't see why in certain circumstances you cannot
> say that code is bug free.

Grin. How do you define code. If there is a bug in Perl then your code has
a bug. Even if there are no bugs a cosmic radiation quanta can flip a bit
in a register and crash your code. Then you will be looking for what you
*believe* to be a bug.

Peter
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