On Aug 4, 2016 11:57 AM, "Mark S. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Alex Vincent <[email protected]> quoted: >> >> >> -- >> "The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is confirming there are no bugs in your own." >> -- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001 > > > > I rarely comment on these incidental aphorisms, but this one is so wrong that it is worth pointing out. You can confirm the existence of many bugs by > * demonstration via failing test case, > * finding the bug, > * having a plausible explanation for why it is incorrect, > * writing a fix with a plausible explanation for why it fixes the problem, and > * demonstrating that the fix repairs the demonstrated test case. > > However hard this is, it is vastly easier than confirming that there are no bugs in your own code.
The latter requires a closed definition of "bug," but the former can be done using an open definition. > -- > Cheers, > --MarkM > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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