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What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature?

Posted by Cliff on from the unexpected-benefits dept.

Bat Country wonders: "The workflow system, at the department I develop for, was hand-coded by my predecessor in a rather short amount of time, resulting in somewhat unreadable code with a number of interesting 'features.' When I took over maintenance of the code base, I started patching bugs and cleaning up the code in preparation for a new set of features. After I was done, I got a pile of complaints about features that had disappeared, which turned out to be caused by the bugs in the code. So, that leads me to ask: what is your favorite bug that you either can't live without or makes your life easier?"

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  1. Re:Perl versus Python by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How much moronic can you get? 'all default behaviors'? how ridiculous. When you grow up you'll like Python. Maybe you'll never grow up.

  2. Re:Personally, I like... Actually... by qwijibo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It stands for:

    Paper Cartridge LOAD LETTER sized paper, you retarded git you can't figure out what the error message means that always occurs when you run out of paper.

    I'm positive that if you read the documentation, it would say exactly that. =)

  3. Re:Perl versus Python by goombah99 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    should 4.0+0.0j and 4.0 be equal? Python does not think so. should 4L and 4.0 be equal? python does not always think so

    --
    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
  4. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF, windows is not a bug. It may have its problems but.....

    You comment is not only redundant, but also a troll as well as flamebait.

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