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BUG [from Telephone Terminology, "bugs In A Telephone Cable", Blamed For Noisy Lines.
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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.
Related:
bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
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....
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}....
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....
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....
Dew on the telephone lines.
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 elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect.
The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed....
Fraud(n): A telephone number starting with "1-900