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Misbug /mis-buhg/ N. [MIT; Rare (like Its Referent)] An Unintended Property Of A Program That Turns Out To Be Useful
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misbug /mis-buhg/ n.
[MIT; rare (like its referent)]
An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful;
something that should have been a bug but turns out to be a
feature. Compare green lightning. See
Related:
misbug: /mis-buhg/ [MIT] n. An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful
omething that should have been a {bug} but turns out to be a {feature}....
BUG [from telephone terminology, "bugs in a telephone cable", blamed for noisy lines.
] n. An unwanted and unintended (and undesirable) property of a program. See FEATURE....
chroedinbug /shroh'din-buhg/ n. [MIT: from the Schroedinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics] A design or implementation bug in a program that doesn't manifest until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked
at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed....
chroedinbug: /shroh'din-buhg/ [MIT: from the Schroedinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics] n.
A design or implementation bug in a program that doesn't manifest until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed....
feature n. 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program).
Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2....
bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
feature, n: A surprising property of a program. Occasionaly documented.
To call a property a feature sometimes means the author did not consider that case, and the program makes an unexpected, though not necessarily wrong response....
FEATURE n. A surprising property of a program. Occasionally documented.
To call a property a feature sometimes means the author did not consider that case, and the program makes an unexpected, though not necessarily wrong response....