> > (*)One of the hardest malicious bugs I've seen was by a > > disgruntled employee who deliberately inserted a bug into the C > > source of the companies compiler. ... He then left the > > company...
> good lord, but if that fellow could only have harnessed that > ingeniousness for the forces of good! He had been, he was a very talented programmer who had worked for us on many big technical projects. In fact he was one of the few people I've met who could debug an octal core dump and genuinely understand what he was reading! Unfortunately deep technical skill is not always recognised by big corporations and he was not as well rewarded as he thought he should be... (and in truth as he probably deserved to be!) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
