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Ailed To The Wall Adj. [like A Trophy] Said Of A Bug Finally Eliminated After Protracted, And Even Heroic, Effort.
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nailed to the wall adj.
[like a trophy] Said of a bug
finally eliminated after protracted, and even heroic, effort.
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ailed to the wall: [like a trophy] adj. Said of a bug finally eliminated after protracted, and even heroic, effort.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
line eater, the: [USENET] n. 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text.
The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab....
line eater, the n. obs. [Usenet] 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text.
The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab....
wall interj. [WPI] 1. An indication of confusion, usually spoken with a quizzical tone
Wall??" 2. A request for further explication....
There's always one more bug, even after that one is removed.
-- Weinberg's Programming Principle #2...
An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen.
He was amazed to find that over Bohr's desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall, with the open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not let it spill out)....
wall: [WPI] interj. 1. An indication of confusion, usually spoken with a quizzical tone
Wall??" 2. A request for further explication....
bug-for-bug compatible n. Same as bug-compatible, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.