https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
From: Steve Richfield [mailto:[email protected]] …. If you cannot produce examples, then you will never ever be able to debug it. Once the code sort of works, the next barrier becomes what I call "heidenbugs" (heiden=good in German) - apparent bugs where the program is actually working exactly as designed. These were a big part of debugging DrEliza, where it correctly diagnosed things that were "obviously" wrong - until I spend a day figuring out exactly what was happening in the expectation of fixing a problem - only to discover that the answer it produced … ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
