OK, thanks Doug and Owen, I'm laughing. 
 
And I'm also noting that Cormac McCarthy (who has been hanging out at SFI lately, and even thanked the Institute in his last book) has a new one about a post-nuclear-apocalyptic society ("The Road").  Could this be the result of programming error?  Or haning out with programmers? ;-)
db
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Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] div. zero bugs?

Easy.

Correct version:

 // World's last bug
 if (red_button_pressed == 1)
   launch_missile();

The other version is guaranteed to bomb...

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On 10/25/06, David Breecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was about to say:  can someone translate this joke into English?  (It
looks funny, but...)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Densmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] div. zero bugs?


>>> // World's last bug
>>> if (red_button_pressed = 1)
>>>    launch_missile();
>>
>> I thought that was pretty funny ^_^
>
> .. for all 7 of us who understood it!
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>     -- Owen
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> Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
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