An aggrieved cry often
heard as bugs manifest during a regression test. The
canonical reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the
same as it did before, doesn't it?" See also one-line fix.
This is also heard from applications programmers trying to blame an
obvious applications problem on an unrelated systems software
change, for example a divide-by-0 fault after terminals were added
to a network. Usually, their statement is found to be false. Upon
close questioning, they will admit some major restructuring of the
program that shouldn't have broken anything, in their opinion, but
which actually hosed the code completely.
